trained as an architect, where he met another future superstar of british architecture, norman foster. my oldest and closest friend. collaborator, architect, humanist, extraordinary individual. but also not just an architect on individual buildings but a passionate supporter of the city, of the sustainable city — the compact, pedestrian—friendly city. so he was hugely influential. developments such as the lloyd's building in london were not to everyone�*s taste, but it didn't stop the commissions. the welsh sennedd... terminal five at heathrow... the millennium dome. he leaves a huge visible legacy, both as an architect and an advisor to politicians on the future of cities. there is a very major part of my architecture which is about trying to create a world which is influenced for the better through public space, through private space and so on. he was bold, colourful and driven. the richard rogers vision was of a city that was open, sociable, welcoming. the influential british architect richard rogers, who's died at the age of 88. that's it for now. i'm back with the news at ten. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. hi, mark. what have you been watching? very mixed bag. we have spider—man: no way home. we have the lost daughter, the directorial debut from maggie gyllenhaal. it's olivia colman. and the tender bar, directed by george clooney. interesting mixture. spider—man, is a good? laughter. pause! yes. yes, but? this picks up straight after the previous film. the identity of spider—man is revealed as peter parker, and suddenly the whole world knows who he is and they're ready to turn against him. here's a clip. that's right, folks — spider—man is, in fact, peter parker! are you spider—man's girlfriend? whoa, whoa, whoa! please don't touch her. all clamouring. you murdered mysterio? you helped to murder_ you murdered mysterio? you helped to murder mysterio? — all this time, people looked up to him and called him a hero. well, i call him public enemy number one! i don't want to do this ever again! mj, i'm so sorry, but i can't see anything with your hand in my... i'm sorry, i'm sorry! dude! he gasps. so, as a result of his identity being revealed, his world starts to fall apart, as do the worlds of those closest to him. he goes to doctor strange. to say, is there anything we can do? at the beginning of it, please don't give away any plot spoilers. so i won't. what i'll say is this — the movie essentially picks up the battle from into the spider verse. i thought it was absolutely terrific. that idea of different realities colliding. and it builds upon that legacy, and i saw it in a packed screening, and it was full of fans. at an imax. there were six separate occasions in which the fans burst into whoops and cheers and applause. there is no questions, it was really playing well. as far as the fans are concerned. part of it was like going to see a band who rather than playing their new album, play the greatest hits. right. interspersed with new songs. i don't mean that necessarily has a bad thing. the other thing is without giving away any spoilers, there is a big comparison between this and a very famous 1970s doctor who. and that's not a bad thing. so do i. i think it manages to be self—referenctial, funny and witty and have a kind of sense of, let's do call back to all the things that you love, but in a way that is inventive. there is a section in which i was smiling all the way through, thinking this is really working. pretty much in the middle. this is really fun. it's for me slightly too long, but when we get into the end, it doesn'tjust descend into that thing about, let's have loads of people just randomly hitting each other. so i think it's actually pretty good, and as far as the fans are concerned, it hits all the right notes. i literally sat there with the audience, and there were six separate occasions in which they burst into cheers. that is what this movie should be doing. as someone who is married to... this will be a must see. i guess i really mean, is it fun? yes. it is fun. the central section is particularly good fun. ok, well, i shall be watching that. i know! i'm interested in the second choice. yes. this is maggie gillenhall�*s directorial debut. she is a comparative literature teacher on holiday in greece. she sees dakota johnson as a young mother who suddenly disappears on a beach. there's a moment of panic, where is the child? but what happens is she looks back into her own past and look at decisions that she made in a former life when she's played byjesse robbins. two actors playing the same character in very different ways. she said she didn't want the people to believe they were the same person. they were two sides of the same person. when she read the novella, she felt it was saying things about being a woman, being a mother, being a professional that had not been set out loud before. and she loved the idea of making it into a conversation. i think there's an awful lot of films of francoise ozon, the idea that there is a surface, but beneath the surface, there are secrets waiting to be revealed. there's a real sense of dread in it. i know a couple of people who've seen it who saw, as far as i can tell, a completely different film to me. they read it in a completely different way. interesting! great performance by olivia coleman, really well directed by maggie gyllenhaal, who not only is a great writer and actor and director, but can also play the ferry man. the theramin! in the most complicated... i think this is really fascinating. i think it's terrific. it's into the enemas now and it's on netflix from the 31st of december. i think everyone will bring their own film to the film. really intrigued. i want to know what you think about it. but i think you'll like it. i love maggie gyllenhaal as an actress so i'm interested and what she does behind the camera. she's great. the tender bar. directed by george clooney from a pulitzer prizewinner. i wasn't familiar with his work. tells the story of him growing up with a mum who says he do anything. you can go to somewhere like yale, and he has an absent father, just a voice on the radio. and he has an absent father, because and he has an absent father, he is a dj. but instead, he has uncle charlie, played by ben affleck, who deals... he's a barman who dishes out life information in a very likeable way. here's a clip. ok, two rules. i'm never going to let you win, ever. if you beat me, you'll know you beat me, fair and square, but i never let you win and i'll always tell you the truth. i saw you in the yard playing sports. you're not very good, and probably not going to get a whole lot better, so might be wise for you — in order to avoid tears and disappointment and, above all, delusion — to find some other activities that you like. you know, like... what do you like to do the most? i like to read. i also like to read. i'm good at sports, too. i really liked... he's a really likeable character. i was reminded of hillbilly elogy... which i really didn't like. which i really didn't like! what's interesting is... a similar story. from a difficult childhood and progress to a celebrated writer. hillbilly elegy was like a bunch of caricatures and sanctimonious quality. and it really annoyed me. this was like, ok, i like these people. i like ben affleck�*s performance, and it felt, in that very george clooney way, it felt solid and reliable and good—hearted and coming from a good place. i confess that there's an awful lot of goodwill towards george clooney because i think he's a decent, solid film—maker, but i thought this was warm and funny and not earth shattering. you can pretty much plot it out from the beginning. but there are some really lovely intimately—observed particularly when uncle charlie is just explaining to the young boy how the world works. you kind of thing, if i was in a bar with that guy, i would never leave the bar. i would just stay there listening to him. and your best out this week? and you saw it, lamb. tell me you love it. you are right, it's not a horror film. it's not. i take it all back. i did sit and watch it with a knot in my stomach. thinking, "something bad is going to happen, something bad is going to happen". it is bonkers. it is absolutely bonkers. it's completely bonkers, and i was surprised i enjoyed some bits of it given that it is not. but beautiful. there is a moment and it when you go, "what?!" there's a moment in which one of the characters goes, "what's going on? " you think that's what the audience is thinking. some of it is deliberately funny. i'm sorry, i can't quite get my head round the fact that i'm watching this couple, raising a lamb, but raising the lamb and then you start to see the lamb the way they see the lamb. it's also about grief and separation and parenting anxieties, and bits of it are funny. it's definitely about grief and i spent a lot of the film thinking, "is the lambjust in their imagination?" exactly. and you get to the end and you think that's just nuts, and you get to the end and you think that'sjust nuts, it's bonkers. i love the answer, he says, what is this, what is this? and he says, "happiness". i won't give any plot spoilers. there is something much later, where there was something that happens and i thought, ok, that's too far. i could deal with the lamb. i could take this much nonsense but now you have stepped over it. and you have to see the film to know what we're talking about. do see it. it would look beautiful on a big screen. i'm so glad you saw it. i'm still not quite sure. i'm bemused, but interested. good. amused but interested is a very good review rather than going, "yeah, it was all right bemused and interested. and a first time film—maker. really, really well done. very quickly. being the ricardos, this drama about lucille ball being accused of being a communist. a story i did not know anything about before, and i actually thought it was interesting. some of the reviews have been a bit sniffy, but it's in cinemas now. it will be available over the christmas season. i think most people will watch on video. it's about a television programme and a television star, so it kind of makes sense and i think its primary audience will be on television. but i kind of enjoyed it. i was confused by how sniffy some of the reviews were. and i think it's going to be a perfect thing to watch over christmas. yeah. interesting enough, interesting tale. and i knew nothing about the story. idid not i did not know anything about this story at all. it turns out that most of it is factually true. some of it is invented, but most of it is true. there's plenty... unlike lamb! my goodness! lovely. i meant to say, happy christmas. happy christmas. we will meet again injanuary. have a lovely christmas. enjoy your cinema watching over the festive season. thanks very much for being with us, bye—bye. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching. goodbye. christmas is coming, and so is omicron — at speed. the covid variant was first reported in south africa in november. it's already spread to dozens of countries. and the who has this message for us... omicron�*s very emergence is another reminder that, although many of us might think we're done with covid—i9, it's not done with us. to put it mildly — this is not where we hoped we'd be. ifeel like we're... it's 2020 all over again, in a way, you know? we're back where we were. in a way, you know? i want to consider where we were with covid and where we are, and look what we've learnt about this virus in 2021. back injanuary, wealthier nations had onlyjust started their vaccine roll—outs. this was israel. the pandemic death toll passed two million, and the number of cases reached 100 million. in the uk, the infection rate was rising, as was the pressure on hospitals. we have a very significant problem. the next few weeks will be the worst weeks of this pandemic. and, amid all this, the who had a message of defiant hope. this was from february. i don't want to ask people to hide under their desks or duvets in fear. actually, i want people to be connecting with each other and saying, you know, "this is a virus that's particularly nasty. "but it is within our power to be able to resist it." almost 12 months on, have we shown we can resist it? to answer that, we need to look at how this pandemic and our understanding of it have evolved, this year. certainly on one thing, there's been no change — we were told the vaccines worked, and they do. in the uk, as vaccinations increased, the number of hospitalisations dropped dramatically. the number of deaths dropped dramatically, too, right across the year. what was less clear was whether vaccines stopped infections. what we really don't know, though, at the moment, is, does the vaccine reduce transmission? does it block infection? that was in january. by the summer, the picture was clearer. what we know with the vaccines is that they are actually remarkably effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths. they are less effective at preventing infection. the vaccines did reduce serious illness, but wouldn't stop the spread of the virus. delta in particular had made sure of that. and, by the end of the summer, it was also clear that two jabs would not be enough. people's immunity was waning. and, in many richer countries, including the us, that's exactly what happened. we need to see if there is waning against mild disease begins to translate into occurrence of more severe occurrences. in translate into occurrence of more severe occurrences.— translate into occurrence of more severe occurrences. in many richer countries. — severe occurrences. in many richer countries, including _ severe occurrences. in many richer countries, including the _ severe occurrences. in many richer countries, including the us, - severe occurrences. in many richer countries, including the us, this i severe occurrences. in many richer countries, including the us, this is| countries, including the us, this is exactly what happened. we are announcing our plan to stay ahead of this virus l by being prepared to offer covid—19 booster shots. . now at this stage, boosters were a response to waning immunity. but right now, they're needed for another reason, too — the omicron variant. we know that two doses of vaccine are not enough to stop you getting infected with omicron. but a booster will cut your risk of symptomatic infection by around 70%. that's why in the uk, we've seen people queuing for hours to get a booster. this year has shown the need for a third jab. and omicron has also taught us other ways the pandemic has evolved. for one, just like the scientists said they would, variants have arrived. alpha, beta, and delta drove covid infections globally with devastating consequences in india. my colleague yogita limaye described the situation. every crematorium we've been to, we've seen body after body being brought in. it's hard for anyone to keep count, but what workers have been telling me is that the real scale of deaths caused by covid—i9 in india is a lot higher than what official numbers reflect. the threat of variants was real — and their threat was being explicitly connected to vaccination rates. this is the co—creator of the astrazeneca vaccine. we need to be able to find the funds and the means to vaccinate widely across the world. if we don't, what will happen is more mutations arising in the virus, and we will have a harder and harder task to fight the virus as it continues to mutate. through the year, the richer countries pushed on with their vaccine roll—outs. nearly 70% of the uk population has been double—jabbed. but less than half of the overall global population has been. and in africa, it's 8%. and the who continues to focus on this issue. let me be very clear. the who is not against boosters. we are against inequity. our main concern is to save lives everywhere. we started the year with the who warning about vaccine equity, we finish it with the same message. and, while richer countries push on with their boosters, omicron has shown that even vaccinating most people in a country may not be enough. this is austria — it's now made vaccines compulsory from february. and here, and in much of western europe, health care systems are under pressure — despite ample vaccine supply. this is the french health minister. translation: the load | in the intensive care units and the number of hospitalizations will continue to increase in the next two weeks. and that is weighing on our hospitals, which are already very mobilised. the question, then, is what to do about this? and bringing in new restrictions remains a live issue. in the house of commons this week, a significant number of borisjohnson�*s own tory mps voted against new restrictions. one of them was andrea leadsom. covid will be with us - for many years to come, and it's unthinkable to think that every autumn from now on, - we will be limiting the qualityl of life for all citizens just to be on the safe side. these restrictions were voted through, and polling in the uk and elsewhere suggests public opinion remains behind them. but, as covid becomes ever more long—term, opposition to restrictions becomes more pronounced. and one of the most contentious restrictions of them all this year has been travel bans. at the start of 2021, there were heavy restrictions. international travel was down 49%, compared with 2019. in addition, countries like australia and new zealand effectively sealed themselves off — they wanted to suppress the virus. but in the end, delta made sure this wasn't possible. by august, for australia, the aim was no longer keeping the virus out. instead... that is our goal — - to live with this virus, not to live in fear of it. globally, international travel has returned in a form. there are still some restrictions, prices are high, and tests have to be done. and the who continues to question travel bans as an idea. and, while the uk briefly introduced some of them for omicron, it quickly changed tack. now that there is community transmission of omicron in the uk, and omicron has spread so widely across the world, the travel red list is now less effective in slowing the incursion of omicron from abroad. 2021 taught us that travel restrictions may buy a little time, but more transmissible variants will find a way through. and so, here we are at the end of 2021 — variants spreading, unresolved disagreements over vaccine distribution, over restrictions, over travel bans — and the statistics tell their own story. more people have died in 2021 from covid than in 2020. the who report that over five million people have lost their lives so far during the pandemic. and, for all these reasons, and with omicron spreading, it can be difficult to gauge how to assess the state of the pandemic. i thought this clip of the who's michael ryan perhaps spoke for a lot of us. but it introduces a level of concern and a level of fear, and a sense of, erm... ..more exhaustion that we all feel. well, here we go again. "here we go again," says michael ryan. and he also offered some advice. just because we have a new variant doesn't mean the situation will get worse. it means we have more uncertainty now. and that, perhaps, is the best way to summarise this year. two fundamental questions remain — can we vaccinate enough people, and how serious are these new variants as we try to do that? at the end of 2021, neither of those questions have definitive answers. and so, as michael ryan says, "we have more uncertainty now." hello, again, i've got a really stunning weather watcher picture to start off with, showing sunny weather across the hills of cumbria and low clouds and mist and fog. we've got low cloud and mistiness and that is exactly how the weather has been across the uk. no area is cloudy and misty and western and higher areas have seen almost a clear weather and sunshine pretty much the whole day. overnight, where we keep clearer skies across parts of scotland, it turns cold. lowest impetus could get down to about —8 in some of the deeper glens. the low cloud keeping frost free elsewhere but there will be some mist and fog patches as we head into monday morning. for some, quite murky. through the day, the area of cloud coming across eastern scotland and eastern areas of england should be more prone to thinning and breaking. overall, through the afternoon, you might well find it being on the brighter side. temperatures around 6 or 7 degrees celsius. this quiet weather is going to last into the middle part of the week but, as we get close to christmas, it gets more interesting. colder from the north. some of you might even see a bit of snow later in the week. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at five. the health secretary refuses to rule out tighter covid restrictions before christmas in response to the rapid spread of the omicron variant but says it is time to be cautious about social interactions. there are no guarantees in this pandemic. i don't think... at this point we have to keep everything under review. germany bans british travellers and the netherlands goes into full lockdown, as europe ramps up its fight against the spread of omicron. the brexit minister lord frost resigns over concerns about the government's "direction of travel" and its covid policy. richard rogers, the architect behind london's millenium dome and the pompidou centre in paris, has died at the age of 88. and who will be crowned your champion as bbc sports personality

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