television. we have seen the news, and it is us. slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s. and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, j.r. ewing, as a pop
here, too. further east for eastern england, well, blue sky and sunshine as you can see from our weather watcher picture from stunning kent. but even here, the clouds will increase through the afternoon and there will also be possibly outbreaks of light patchy rain and drizzle from our weather front that is gradually continuing eastwards. it will eventually clear overnight tonight. forthe it will eventually clear overnight tonight. for the rest of the day, still further outbreaks of rain, heavy downpours potentially for the scottish borders through northern england, maybe into east anglia by the end of the day, further south. then a lot of the rain is light and patchy. there could be sunny spells developing across devon and cornwall and northern ireland, but watch out for heavy and thundery showers, temperatures in the low 20s, may be 25 degrees in norwich, where we will see the sunshine last longest. and overnight, our weather front clears into the north sea. for many, it wi
channel islands, parts of the south west, all that humidity working in behind the outbreaks of rain, pretty soggy for the first part of the evening in yorkshire and lincolnshire, some patchy rain elsewhere. even when you get breaks in the cloud they will fill in with mist and fog tanks to thanks to the rising levels of humidity. low pressure with us for tomorrow, a couple of little weather fronts moving through, bringing shower, but all of us fining ourselves in the midst of this very humid air, but particularly humid in the south where across the south west, parts of wales will be murky start, some fog patches elsewhere. a fair amount of cloud in the sky. that cloud breaking from time to time to give spells of sunshine. best for northern ireland, the south east of england but equally that cloud producing a few showers here and there. 20 for glasgow, 21 for belfast but parts of east aping that getting up to 27 degrees. through tomorrow we see rain gathering to the south we
dictator, ferdinand marcosjunior is giving his inaugural state of the nation address later after an overwhelming election win in may. as hollywood takes up the story of the 12 young thai footballers and their coach rescued from a cave a few years ago we go back to talk to the people involved in saving them. when i first walked up here four macro years ago and saw the row of bicycles up against these railings belonging to boys the same age as my own sons, i remember the heavy feeling i had then, how unlikely it was that they would ever come out alive. ., ., , ., alive. life from our studio in singapore- alive. life from our studio in singapore. this alive. life from our studio in singapore. this is alive. life from our studio in singapore. this is bbc- alive. life from our studio in | singapore. this is bbc news. alive. life from our studio in - singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s
four p.m. on thursday. the group reentereded the building. accounts vary as to what exactly happened next , but it seems clear that colbert s employees werees let inside by an ally within the building that would be a freshmanou member of congress from massachusetts called jake auchinclosssja. once on federal property, colbert completed what they came to do, which was disruptpts the business of congress and apparently we re not subtle about doing itng, poundeder on doors and yelled whatever they did, it got people s attention. it takes an awful lot force a police force controlledo by nancy pelosi to arrestup a group of leftwingte entertainmentrt figures. but that s exactly what happened next . capitol hill police arrestedpith stephen colbert employees and brought them to jail allt seven of them were chargedde with unlawful entry. now that s the identical chargee that hundreds of january six defendants have been prosecuted for. but unlike january six defendants, cobus employees