grand slam today, while hoping england do them a favour by beating france. and it has been pretty unsettled of late but as we look towards the next couple of days, high pressure is building, something brighter and drier on the horizon, i will be back with all the details. it s saturday 13 march. our top story: a metropolitan police officer will appear in court today, charged with the kidnap and murder of sarah everard, who went missing while walking home in south london ten days ago. wayne couzens, who s a8, was taken to hospital yesterday for a second time in two days, to be treated for a fresh head injury sustained in custody. charlotte wright reports. it is ten days since sarah everard disappeared in south london. she was walking home. today, a serving metropolitan police officer, 48 year old wayne couzens, will appear before magistrates. charged with her kidnap and murder. it follows a large scale police investigation spanning sites in london and kent. woodland in ashford
to freezing in some spots, most of us in towns and cities around four or 5 degrees, here is that dry if not sunny weather in the morning. are particularly across eastern and southern areas. the clouds are thickening quite quickly in the morning and into the afternoon towards the west, so all that rain are moving into the north west of england, wales, midlands too and eventually that will spread to other parts of the country as well. eastern scotland, aberdeenshire, it should have a decent afternoon with some sunshine here, but on the whole, the morning certainly, but the afternoon wet, so take it as you will. goodbye. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the prime minister borisjohnson says he and his partner will light a candle this evening for sarah everard after an official vigil in south london was cancelled metropolitan police officer, wayne couzens, has appeared in court after being charged with sarah everard s kidnap and murder. most of italy is set to shut schools,
hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best new home viewing releases as we look forward to cinemas reopening in may. in the oscar tipped current release the united states vs billie holiday, a federal agent with deeply divided loyalties is sent to infiltrate and undermine a powerful voice of civil rights. that scenario is echoed injudas and the black messiah, a gripping drama inspired by real events from director and co writer shaka king. it s not a question of violence or nonviolence, it s a question of resistance to fascism or nonexistence within fascism! cheering. you can murder and liberate them, but you can t murder liberation! you can murder a revolutionary, but you can t murder revolution! and you can murder a freedom fighter, but you can t murder freedom! lakeith stanfield plays young car thief william o neill, who s strong armed into spying on black panther leader fred hampton, charismaticly portrayed by daniel kaluuya. fred hampt
One of the first pieces of advice you’ll get when faced with social media harassment is to not engage. Don’t give trolls your time and energy. Don’t try to dunk on vitriolic bots because fighting back seems natural. Better to mute offending accounts, log off until the storm blows over, and move on. But in Ivo van Aart’s revenge thriller “The Columnist,” our hero escalates the tension by showing up to her harassers’ residences and confronting them about their actions. Then, she fights verbal violence with physical violence.
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Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is the type of feminist writer many trolls often target. Whether she writes about mundane things or political social issues, Boot is constantly under attack online, a situation that’s only getting worse. At first, she threatens to leave social media, but the hate keeps pouring in. She tries to report the harassment to the police, but no one takes her fears of online death threats and violence seriously. S
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To paraphrase Nietzsche: gaze too long into Twitter, and Twitter will gaze into you. Anyone who writes for a living on the internet has surely fantasised about payback time for all the keyboard warriors, callous below-the-liners and unrepentant trolls out there. Ivo van Aartâs movie gives full rein to that desire and is snappily directed â but in the end there is something self-satisfied and sententious about his feminist revenge flick.
Katja Herbers plays Femke Boot, a newspaper columnist drowning in internet misogyny, especially after she steps out of her usual lifestyle remit to write an op-ed about Zwarte Piet, the Dutch blackface folkloric character. Her book publisher is pressurising her for juicier material to better compete with author-of-the-hour Steven Dood (Steven Death), a kohl-rimmed provocateur who savages her on a chatshow. Umbilically fed by her phone on a diet of shitposter abuse, she finally snaps when she reali