in a film career that spans six decades, sir ridley scott s made some of the biggest blockbusters of all time. he cut his teeth making high profile adverts, like this one for hovis. it was a grand ride back, though. just do a spin and walk backwards there without sliding and falling over. ..before turning his attention to the big screen. the duellists in 1977 was his first film and was set in napoleonic france. his second feature alien made a star of its lead actor sigourney weaver, and opened doors in hollywood for its director. blade runner, thelma and louise, gladiator, black hawk down are just some of the film credits to his name. and now, in his 80s, ridley scott has returned to napoleonic france for his 28th movie, the epic napoleon. don t listen to advice, is that your advice? yes. you can only be your own critic. you can t say, what do you think? that s a disaster. i m the bbc s culture editor, katie razzall, and i sat down with the acclaimed director ahead of t
centre of rafah for the first time. the hamas run health authority says at least 21 people were killed on tuesday in west rafah after an explosion in the same deemed saferfor palestinians, coming safer for palestinians, coming two saferfor palestinians, coming two days after israeli bomb swept through a fire in a refugee camp in rafah leaving 45 people dead including women and children. lucy williamson has more on the fallout. there has been no evacuation order from the israeli army. and for many, no sense of where to this is not a lie. this is not a lie. they were packing up, too, in the displacement camp at tal al sultan to the west of the city, still scarred by fires triggered in an israeli air strike on sunday. dozens dead, survivors spent. there s more than one way to lose a life. israel says its operation in rafah is key to defeating hamas and that the strike on sunday on hamas commanders in the camp was carried out with precise munitions that would not, by themselves,
where novak djokovic has begun his french open title defence with a solid straight sets victory over france s pierre hugues herbert. having not yet reached a final in 2024, there have been question marks around his form. but he did what he does best on the clay courts of the french capital, powering to a 6 4, 7 6, 6 4 win over his wild card opponent. the 24 time grand slam champion will take sole ownership of the record of most major titles with a fourth victory in paris. next up for him spain s world number 63, roberto carballes baena. two time french open finalist casper ruud moved into the second round with a routine 6 3, 6 4, 6 3 win over brazil s felipe meligeni alves. the norwegian is a two time beaten finalist in paris, so will be looking to make that final step. aryna sabalenka meanwhile dropped just three games against teenager erika andreeva to start her french open campaign in emphatic style. the second seed was never truly troubled in a 6 1, 6 2 win over her 19
6-2, 4-6, 6-4. this was the perfect day, i think. singles and doubles. and the singles was a really tough match. i m happy i managed to come back in the third set because, you know, was tough after the second set. but yeah, i m really happy with my performance and i m also happy for the doubles, of corse. i was just trying to find my game, which was always like i would step back and i was trying to fight through. but in the end, yeah, as you say, it s not the greatest day in the office. and i was close, but she won. and in the end, i mjust. yeah, i need to focus now on the grass season. perhaps even more of a shock second seed aryna sabalenka has gone out to 17 year old russian mira andreeva. the first set went to a tie break which the experienced belarusian sabalenka eventually took seven six. eventually took 7 6. but then she lost the second and the third set to the teenager who is now through to her first grand slam semifinal. she is the youngest woman to do so since mar
class= nosel > and of course, he s trying to become president of america again and the other is about the business models of news, because they are under ever more pressure. and when it comes to the business model, we are also looking at al and journalism, because several news organisations have done recent deals with the big tech firms. so that is all coming up. on this week s programme, we re going to hearfrom andrew neil, who has a brand new show on times radio. he s also the chairman of the spectator group. and we rejoined by caroline waterston, the relatively new editor in chief of the daily mirror. yeah, we ve also got two guests coming out of the states one, katie notopoulos, who s the senior tech and business correspondent at business insider. but the first person we spoke to isjeffrey goldberg, who is editor in chief of the atlantic. and we started off by asking him just to sum up what the atlantic is. how is that even possible? on the rare. just in case people do