the transition hasn t always been smooth, but hong kong retains its own currency and identity. it s one of the most densely packed cities on the planet, it s got more skyscrapers than anywhere else on earth and it s a fusion of cantonese culture with a colonial past. sojoin me as i explore this unique mix of east and west where. .. ..i put my dumpling making skills to the test. she laughs 0k, well, not bad. yeah! ..learn more about the visual identity of the city. ..and meet the conservationist putting hong kong back in touch with its rural roots. came out of nowhere and they kind of sound like ducks. who knew? horn blares now, this is the way to arrive into hong kong. i m on the star ferry, which goes from kowloon all the way into the heart of hong kong island. and it costs about four hong kong dollars, which is about 50 us cents, so i think it s fair to say this is probably one of the best value cruises in the world. you ll find hong kong off the southern coast of mainland
carried out its deadly attacks on israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the incident an unbearable tragedy . relatives of hostages taken by hamas have been protesting the accidental killings in tel aviv, while also calling for a ceasefire and agreement for the release of those still held captive. more than 100 hostages remain in gaza. a federaljury has ordered former president donald trump s ex lawyer rudy giuliani to pay more than $1118 million, or $116 million, to two women over lies that they tampered with votes in the 2020 presidential election. a judge had already found mr giuliani liable of making defamatory claims about the georgia poll workers. mr giuliani told reporters outside the court he has no regrets. we ll have more on these stories and more in the next hour. we start with the us supreme court, which announced this week it will hear a case challenging the food and drugs administration s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. the biden admin
so i feel very, i love being onstage. i love being in a live environment. i haven t been onstage, actually, for a couple of years now, five years, probably. but i m looking forward to going back and doing some more because it is, it s live and you have a control over the performance, which you don t on screen. is it true, that thing people always say about how you feel the audience when you re onstage? you can feel whether they re paying attention or slightly looking at their watches, thinking, am i going to make the last train home? yeah. you can? totally. the last play i did was a beautiful play by bill nicholson called shadowlands, which is a movie with debra winger and tony hopkins about cs lewis and his late flowering love. and it s shot through with great wit and humour about this very closed off man who finds love late in life, and then she dies. and it s really a story about the question that he asks at the beginning of the play is, if god is love, why does he allow s
forecast to maintain its majority in the country s parliament. now on bbc news, inside the saudi sporting machine. it s the country transforming the sporting landscape, from signing top stars to a revamped football league to an upheaval of professional golf and the staging of boxing s biggest fights. saudi arabia s investment in sport has gone into overdrive. the country now set to host the 2034 world cup too. but there s also controversy among fears that one of the world s richest oil states is using sports to distract from its human rights record and its impact on the environment. i travelled tojeddah for a rare opportunity to speak to one of the key figures behind the country s remarkable sporting revolution. there seems no end to the number of sports you are investing in. are we at the high point now or are wejust beginning the journey? there is a lot, as you said. our ambition is to host the best events around the world in the kingdom for the people of the kingdom to see
during the pandemic. i wasn t trying to pull the wool over anyone s eyes, and i regret, and i am sorry, for not saying straight out, yes i am involved. i will be representing the uk at the eurovision song contest! pop star and actor olly alexander is announced as the united kingdom s entry for next year s eurovision song contest. hello. we begin in gaza, where in a sign of the growing hunger and desperation there, aid trucks entering the strip have been mobbed and looted by crowds of people. vehicles carrying vital aid in through the rafah border crossing from egypt were boarded and stripped of their supplies. the un says hungry people helping themselves to food is making it almost impossible to distribute aid. there are hopes more aid will start arriving each day, after israel opened the kerem shalom crossing into gaza for humanitarian aid trucks for the first time since the war started in october. until now, aid has only been able to reach the territory through the rafah cr