the series in which leading artists and performers talk to me about their most significant cultural influences and experiences. i m john wilson and my guest is oscar winning actor nicole kidman who has been an international star for over 30 years now. i was really looking forward to meeting nicole in london, but even a superstar s travel plans can be ruined, so we talked virtually. nicole kidmanjoining us from los angeles, welcome to this cultural life. thank you, thank you for having me. you were born in hawaii and moved to sydney with your australian parents at the age of four. your father was a clinical psychologist and biochemist. was it a creative upbringing? yeah, absolutely. i mean, as much as i grew up the daughter of a scientist who became a psychologist, i was also the daughter of a nurse educator, but they were both academics. but there was an enormous love of the arts. i was always taken to the theatre, opera, symphonies, my mother loves opera. what are your earli
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we begin in the occupied west bank where the israeli military has launched a major operation against, what it claims are militants, based in the sprawling and long established refugee camp injenin. the palestinian authorities say, it s simply an invasion and that it should be seen as a war crime. at least eight people have been killed, and dozens injured. 0ur middle east correspondent yolande knell reports. the day ended as it had begun injenin with battles raging. the israeli military had used a surprise drone strike in the early hours to target what it said was the headquarters of local militants. armed palestinians began fighting back from inside the city s crowded, decades old refugee camp. hundreds of israeli soldiers are on the ground. the israeli military says they re seizing weapons and explosives. the israeli prime minister said action was overdue. translation: the israeli defence force began - an extensive operation last night against terrorism injenin. in rec
approximately 1,000 people are born every day in africa with sickle cell. i have sickle cell disease. up to 90% of us die before the age of five. 0ur government do little to help us. even in our own communities, people with sickle cell are often treated like outcasts because of misconception and stigma surrounding the disease. i m putting my life on the line to fight this deadly disease. and to dispel the myths that surround it. sickle cell is not witchcraft. it s not it s not ancestral curses. it s something that we can solve. gentle guitar music plays. speaks swahili. 0h, damn! the abnormal sickle shaped red blood cells in my body affect my oxygen levels. one of the biggest problems with sickle cell is oxygen. like, if you don t have sufficient oxygen, so you can only push your body far for a good number of days before you need to really rest. now, he s telling people, this guy has sickle cell, and they don t even know i have sickle cell. i ve been raising awareness abo