anthony albanese takes to twitter to pay tribute to barry humphries, calling him one of a kind and gifted . a deadly restaurant fire in madrid. two people have died and 12 others are injured. we and 12 others are injured. will be live at the scenei very we will be live at the scene for the very latest. and eyes are on hollywood star owned wrexham, which hopes to return to the english football league for the first time in 15 years. we start in sudan, where the army says foreign nationals from the uk as well as the united states, france and china, are to be evacuated in the coming hours . these are saudi state tv pictures of a boat reported to be carrying saudi citizens and some other nationals arriving injeddah, across the red sea from sudan. other ships are said to be due to dock injeddah later. the head of sudan s military agreed to facilitate the evacuation, as fighting in the capital khartoum enters its second week. the saudi broadcaster says the evacuees were carried
live from london. this is bbc news. the evacuation of foreign nationals from sudan gets under way, as fighting in the capital, khartoum, continues for a second week, this a ship arriving injeddah. kenyan police say they have so far exhumed 21 bodies following an investigation into a religious group. its followers were allegedly urged to fast themselves to death. the australian entertainer, barry humphries dies at the age of 89. he was best known for performances of his alter egos dame edna everage and sir les patterson. the australian prime minister
she said, well, aren t you a success, you had had nine hits this year? and then she said, on your website! then there was her cultural cachet, sir les, who was brilliant at naming the herds of elephants in the room. then there was sandy stone, a very poignant character, and then the real barry, the man behind the mask, who was so erudite. les patterson spot erudite to some kind of glue, but barry was such an intellectual. he collected books, he has over 50,000 books, his shelves were always growing. he was an art collector, incredibly intellectual. also, as a friend, the most loving, loyal, kind person. his charm was more disarming than a un peacekeeping force. so witty. when he could come round for dinner it was the wimbledon of wit with
it was easy, i could just keep writing, but he so craved the audience. on thursday nights where he had the clap for carers when we have been hiding in a houses all week, and of those days we would applaud the front line workers, barry told me he would go to the top balcony of his house, put a silk smoking jacket on, and then he would just pretend the applause was for him, and the thank you, thank you! he was so desperate for the sound of appreciation. he was such a great performer. ijust cannot believe that we are not going to have an encore. ijust can t believe he is not meant to wander through my garden with that mischievous looking in his eye, come in for a cup of tea, and just have me hospitalised from hilarity in 3.6 seconds. it is a great loss to the world, but he has left us a wonderful legacy. at least we have all the dame edna clips, we have all the les patterson clips to feast
was a man called barry humphries. that s me standing outside. oh, one of the big clocks they ve got over there. he arrived in britain in 1959, an australian comedian with a devilish delight in satirising the people he d grown up with. most of us who go to england try to get rid of our australian accents if we can. because we ve always felt, with our accents, rather inferior, the world in which i don t have the friendship of barry humphries is very painful, because it was so energetic and loving. he was a huge personality. once you are exposed to it and enveloped by it, it was wonderful. that is a great absence of my life, now. wonderful. that is a great absence of my life. ow- wonderful. that is a great absence of my life, now. barry humphries is the absolute of my life, now. barry humphries is the absolute opposite of my life, now. barry humphries is the absolute opposite of of my life, now. barry humphries is the absolute opposite of a - of my life, now. barry humphries is th