hello to you. tributes have poured in for the footballer, diego maradona, who's died of a heart attack at the age of 60. the argentine president, alberto fernandez, declared three days of national mourning, saying maradona had ta ken his country "to the top of the world". maradona led argentina to victory in the world cup in 1986, a campaign that included the so—called ‘hand of god' goal. here's our sports editor dan roan. uniquely talented, deeply troubled and at times, simply untouchable. diego maradona played football that defied belief. to his left. he won't need any of them. 0h! you have to say that's magnificent! argentina against england in the 1986 world cup quarter—final, in what was later voted "the goal of the century". and yetjust four minutes earlier, maradona had become one of sport's most notorious cheats. commentator: maradona! the two extremes of a footballing force of nature. replays showed he had scored with his arm, or the ‘hand of god‘, as he infamously described it. but maradona had no regrets. translation: i couldn't reach it and shilton was already there, so i couldn‘t head it so i did like that. i believe it‘s a craftiness. it‘s not cheating. tonight, one of the men who failed to stop maradona that day recalled an iconic performance. as much as he cheated then, the second goal was pure genius from one of the greatest footballers who ever walked the planet. maradona‘s spellbinding skills propelled argentina to the trophy — the pinnacle of a remarkable journey that began in the slums outside buenos aires. at his first world cup in 1982 came signs of his flawed genius, making an impact for the right and wrong reasons. after a world record transfer to barcelona came more magic, but chaos and controversy were never far away — the skill often overshadowed by scandal. at unfashionable napoli, maradona guided the underdogs to their first league title. but gradually the dream started to sour, a tearful runner—up at the 1990 world cup and the next tournament, this celebration hinted at the demons within. he failed a doping test and was sent home in disgrace. without football his addictions grew, battling both drugs and alcohol, his weight ballooned. he was rushed to hospital after an overdose. while recovering in cuba he befriended then president fidel castro. maradona went on to coach the national side, but it is as a player he will always be remembered. this evening, as thousands of fans gathered outside one of his former clubs, boca juniors, and argentina declared three days of mourning, tributes from the world of football poured in. pele, the other icon with who, he will forever be compared, said: argentina‘s superstar lionel messi meanwhile wrote: tonight across europe, a minute‘s silence was held at every champions league match for a man that was short in stature but became a sporting giant. all too human off the field, his place among the pantheon of footballing legends is secure. commentator: brilliant run by maradona! fantastic goal! unbelievable! arguably the greatest ever, his brilliance beyond dispute. we will have more on that report a little later in the program. but let‘s take you to the scene in buenos aires. there‘s a pandemic there of course there is everywhere else in the world but what a scene. you get a flavour to ofjust how important he was to the contrary. three days of national mourning declared. his funeral will be in a palace. the argentine football association has expressed its deeper sorrows for the death of allergen, always in our hearts. hea allergen, always in our hearts. he a president declaring those three is a national mourning. said "you took us to the top of the world, adamantly happy, you‘re the greatest of all. diego, we‘ll miss you our lives". —— all our lives. donald trump has pardoned his former national security adviser, michael flynn. general flynn served just three weeks in office at the start of the trump administration before pleading guilty to lying to the fbi during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. the president wrote on social media, "it is my great honour earlier an advisor spoke to the bbc about departing.” earlier an advisor spoke to the bbc about departing. i worked with michael flynn during my yearin with michael flynn during my year in the white house and it is no surprise that his loyalty to donald trump has certainly paid off, and expect to see more of these types of pardons for trump loyalists, no matter how grievous their crimes well. but really, donald trump is laying the groundwork for what we expect to be a very dramatic and. donald trump, the tv show host, he likes to have a dramatic finale. and what‘s more of one that will top the fa ct more of one that will top the fact that donald trump will proactively protect himself from any potential crimes at the federal level by pardoning himself. we can now speak to the us political commentator and journalist max kutner. max has been following and reporting on michael flynn since the beginning of his legal issues back in 2017. we should be clear about this, a partand we should be clear about this, a part and does not remove the crime. it doesn‘t remove the guilty pleas. that's right but at the same time, this is a big deal, it is the end of this saga that we have all been watching. michael flynn was one of the very first people charged in the mueller investigation almost three years to the day backin almost three years to the day back in december 2017. he really for a while was seen as a fringe figure. we know that when president trump met with president 0bama during trumpet‘s transition four years ago, 0bama want to about two things, north korea and michael flynn. and yet, as his case dragged on, he developed a really loyal following. i spoke with a woman in 2017 who donated to his legal defence fund to —— who said that she gave the money to flynn instead of buying christmas presents for her husband. he really developed a following. i have spoken with his family over the yea rs, spoken with his family over the years, they have wanted estate over the years and now the day has finally come. you have to look far as social media saying any number of people who said he wishes the fall guy. and thatis he wishes the fall guy. and that is whatjoseph flynn, his brother said, many years ago. he told me the same and tweeted out president trump, please grant him a pardon, he took the fall for all of you. that is what dose flynn said in a sweet and expanded on that, speaking with me. this is how everyone has felt for years and it is also a way of undoing the russia investigation and undoing the power of the muller probe. president trump has tried to undo it for years. he feels like he was exonerated by it and now he wants to exonerate other people. he commuted the sentence of roger stone, who was another mueller defendant a few months ago. this wasn‘t entirely unexpected but this was something his loyalists, to‘s loyalists have wa nted loyalists, to‘s loyalists have wanted for years. max, mr trump certainly wouldn‘t be the first outgoing president to do this but this looks like the first ofa but this looks like the first of a whole series of pardons, possibly their speculation for mrtrump possibly their speculation for mr trump himself. yes, mike, it is not unusual for a mr trump himself. yes, mike, it is not unusualfor a president in his last weeks and months in office to give out a flurry of pardons or communications. but to do so for people who were involved in crimes in which the president also was allegedly involved, that is a bit unusual. that is what we are now going to be looking towards in the coming weeks and months before inauguration in january. who else will president trump pardon? will he pardon other people facing charges like the ones flynn dead? 0r people facing charges like the ones flynn dead? or will he even pardon himself? that is a big topic of debate amongst constitutional law scholars. i‘ve spoken to some of those people and some people say he can and obviously can‘t. a couple of governors have gotten away with it before. so maybe he will look to those cases for some support for a pardon for himself. max, we will clearly be back to this and hope we can talk to you again. think you very much. thank you. iranian state television has announced that a british australian academic kylie moore—gilbert has been released after two years in detention. it said that ms moore—gilbert had been released in exchange for three unnamed iranians imprisoned abroad. she was detained in iran in 2018 and given a ten—year sentence for espionage — a charge that she has always denied. australia‘s foreign affairs minister, marise payne has released a statement saying: rose kulak is an individuals at risk campaigner for amnesty international australia and she joins me live from melbourne. thank you for your time. what do you make of this? this is really good news to be hearing that kylie is finally coming back to australia. she should never have been detained in iran and the first place and we can only echo of senator payne‘s sentiments in just how glad we are that it is finally been rectified and kylie is on her way home. you have any idea how she is, how she was treated? we don't directly know... we are just reading the news reports in terms of how kylie is going. but her treatment would not have been great. we know that is of the countries that is where human rights is pretty down low at their list of things they are good at. the prison conditions will not have been good that kylie was living through, especially in the section where the revolutionary guard where she had been detained. we know that the ill—treatment and torture is quite prolific there. is it your position that she was pretty much a bargaining chip? that... i can‘t really comment on that but we know that there... australians are being detained overseas and it is questionable in terms of why they are being detained. i mean, when we look at the other case of the vietnamese australian, 71 years old, who is currently detained in vietnam, he did nothing and he has been sentenced to 12 yea rs he has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. this is something that we are seeing and we are calling on the australian government to do all they can in these cases. so that they can bring them home just like kylie is coming home. thank you for talking to us. thank you for talking to us. thank you. thank you for being with us. stay with us on bbc news — still to come: as the uk tries to get a grip on public spending following the covid pandemic, the government decides to cut foreign aid. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster for the whole free world. he caught the imagination of the world. the first of a new generation of leaders. margaret thatcher is resigning as leader of the conservative party and prime minister. before leaving number 10 to see the queen, she told her cabinet, "it‘s a funny old world." angela merkel is germany's first woman chancellor, easily securing the majority she needed. attempts to fly a hot air balloon had to be abandoned after a few minutes but nobody seemed to mind very much. as one local comic put it, "it's not hot air we need, it's hard cash." cuba has declared nine days of mourning following the death of fidel castro at the age of 90. castro developed close ties with the soviet union in the 1960s. it was an alliance that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, with the cuban missile crisis. this is bbc news — the latest headlines: one of the most famous footballers of the past 50 years and one of the sport‘s all—time greats, diego maradona, has died. president trump pardons michael flynn — his first national security advisor, who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia. let‘s stay with the news about the death of argentinian footballer diego maradona. i‘m joined now by natalio cosoy. he‘s a journalist in buenos aires, near the 0belisco monument, where some of maradona‘s fans have been gathering. extraordinary scenes there really, not surprising. if somehow you did not know anything about maradona, the ideas that will be three days of national mourning and a funeral at a palace tells you a great deal? indeed. his funeral will be this thursday and it is expected huge crowds will be gathered outside the palace near the square in front of it. huge crowds as the ones behind me at the 0belisco monument, they are playing a game of football! it is interesting the stature of marriage but at the same time, a celebratory mood, as if trying to remember how a big figure he was in life. and i think this is what we will see today and in the coming days from cars like this gathering in buenos aires and other places in argentina. gone too soon but what a life and a life that touched so many other lives. what would you say he meant for argentina? the same for everyone, indeed, some people probably don‘t care that much. but most argentinians are very aware of maradona‘s figure and most, somehow, relate to him. plenty do love him. of course, he is a football legend who was massive on the pitch but also a particular character, controversial but at the same time very charismatic. someone who was not afraid to speak out and say what he thought. something that is not very often seen in football. i think that also made him very close to people here in argentina and, somehow, i would risk to say that maradona helped define some beats and somehow argentina‘s character and culture are. what a life! like a movie script, he came from the slums to such a high. his addictions, what is the filling, where they always there i did it come from the life which had so many natural highs but also had absolutely no privity for so many years? - privacy. it is understood and something marie donohue said, he said he started life of drug use in barcelona — — something that diego maradona said, and it is something that continued through his life. it‘s not easy to explain why someone was addicted but he was very open about that and they‘re very difficulty to leave that behind. he became later to addicted to alcohol, which was addicted to alcohol, which was a recent problem of his and something that some, yes, may lead to the fact that he was faced with a massive exposure from the media and always scrutinised by society and by eve ryo ne scrutinised by society and by everyone and criticise continuously but difficult to pin down to a single reason. it is something that will be remembered of married donna —— diego maradona as much as anything in his life and if anything in his life and if anything he lived a very intense life indeed. indeed. thank you so much. 0ver over to the us and joe biden said he urges americans to recommit to the fight of coronavirus and on thanksgiving he asked to forgo high—risk traditions cases of the virus surge. we know the country has grown weary of the fight. we need to remember we are at war with the virus, not with wanting another, not with each other. this is the moment we need to steal our spines, double efforts and recommit ourselves to the fight. let us remember, we are all in this together —— steel. the british government has been unveiling a new comprehensive spending review, following a year when their borrowing has risen sharply to try and combat the effects of covid. one of the more controversial elements of the spending review was chancellor rishi sunak‘ss decision to cut the amount of money the uk gives inforeign aid. the decision has been widely criticised and a minister at the foreign office has resigned in protest. mr sunak told mps that to carry on spending abroad when there was a domestic emergency was difficult to justify. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale has more details. for years, the sight of a plane delivering british food and medicine has brought hope to millions. the humanitarian assistance that can, for some, mean the difference between life and death. but now the government‘s cutting back, to the fury of the man who championed aid in office. well, i think it‘s a very sad moment. it not just that we‘ve. .. we‘re breaking a promise to the poorest people and the poorest countries in the world, a promise that we made and a promise that we don‘t have to break, it's that that 0.7% commitment, it really said something about britain. last year, the uk spent £15 billion on foreign aid, about 0.7% of national income. the government is now cutting that legally binding target tojust 0.5%. that means spending only £10 billion next year. this would be less than germany on 0.6%, but more than france on 0.4%. those who work to reduce poverty and disease say these cuts will bite deep, particularly during the covid—19 pandemic. this is the last time we should be cutting aid. cutting aid will make it harder to get vaccines to people all over the world, harder to get the treatments that people need and, ultimately, it will extend the lifetime of the pandemic. this is a little bit like cutting funding to the raf right in the middle of the battle of britain. my lords, existing humanitarian disasters and conflicts... the foreign office development minister lady sugg was so unhappy she resigned, saying the cut was fundamentally wrong. but the aid budget has long faced questions about priorities, such as why some goes to india, with its own space programme. questions that are harder to answer when the country‘s facing such an economic emergency. this is not something that anybody wanted to have to do, but the truth is that the nhs and helping people who are unemployed has to be the priority next year. for years, britain‘s had a reputation as an aid superpower. and that‘s got the uk a hearing on the international stage. it‘s opened doorfor ministers and officials here at the foreign office. the question is what impact the possible decision will have on that reputation just as britain tries to carve a new role for itself after brexit. to spend less on aid, the government will also have to change the law — and that means a long parliamentary battle ahead. james landale, bbc news. the duchess of sussex has described the "almost unbearable grief" she experienced when she suffered a miscarriage in july. writing in the new york times, she said that talking about losing a baby was still something of a taboo , and led to what she called ‘unwarranted shame‘. 0ur correspondent sarah campbell reports on meghan‘s decision to speak out. wait, listen, did you hear that? i heard duck sounds. quack, quack, quack! archie‘s first birthday in may. two months later, his mother, the duchess of sussex, suffered a miscarriage, revealing today in a newspaper editorial the impact on her and her husband, prince harry. she described how, after changing archie‘s nappy, she felt a sharp cramp... "and yet," she added... her words have resonated with those all too familiar with pregnancy loss. if i had seen this essay when i had my first pregnancy loss, i would‘ve felt a lot less isolated and a lot less alone. because although i knew that the loss of pregnancy was common, no—one really talked to me about it, and no—one actually really knew what to say to understand what i was going through. meghan joins a number of high—profile women who have opened up about the loss of a child. chrissy teigen was widely praised for sharing intimate pictures in the aftermath of a stillbirth. michelle 0bama wrote of her miscarriage in her autobiography. and zara tindall, prince harry‘s cousin, revealed she‘d suffered two miscarriages before the birth of her second child. it‘s estimated that up to one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. all couples will cope in their own way. but experts agree it‘s important those that want to talk about it feel that they can. there is a lot of pressure that is put on women to be able to conceive, and conceive successfully, and when we don‘t talk about it, u nfortu nately, we can hold a lot of that shame and stigma within us, within ourfamilies and sometimes within our communities and particular cultures. the sussexes stepped back from royal duties year but as this article illustrates, meghan hasn‘t stepped back from public life. just briefly it was nearly cancelled because of the high winds but this year it was the pandemic but the macy‘s thanksgiving parade was on but it will be shorter but balloons are inflated. it has been going since 192a and only one want to stop that and there will be fewer balloons and sources tell us fewer balloons and sources tell us there are two new ones including red titan, who know the youtube series brian‘s world and spongebob square pa nts world and spongebob square pants will be back as well! almost 200 people i used to anchor each balloon. and they will be socially distanced. and a reminder, of the main news again, argentina has been plunged into morning, three days officially, i‘m national mourning by the death of arguably its most famous son, diego maradona. people are poured out onto the street to express their grief. his sublime performance and cured victory in the 1986 world cup and his life after the world cup was troubled by addiction but he did remain a hero to very many in the country. the president, alberto fernandez said that maradona took his country to the top of the world. he died of a heart attack at the age of 60 but his life had been quite a troubled one, along with so many hires. much more on all the news, national and international, any time on the website and on the twitter feed as well. . time on the website and on the twitterfeed as well. . —— highs. thank you for watching. hello. we‘ve plenty of fine weather in the forecast for the uk for the next few days, thanks to a building ridge of high pressure. but that ridge of high pressure will bring with it an increased chance of many of us seeing frosty nights. could be some chilly days, as well, as under the ridge of high pressure, there‘s an increasing chance of us seeing fog developing by night and lingering into the coming days. today perhaps not so bad, though. we will have a weather front still pushing a bit more cloud into southernmost counties of the uk first thing, a little bit of rain for kent. 0n the whole, though, the majority seeing sunshine from the get—go. but even with the sunshine, after a chilly start, our temperatures won‘t recover to the heights we‘ve seen previously this week. we‘re looking typically at highs of 7—9, the odd spot getting up to 10—11. you may all notice this weather front trying to come into the northwest. these two fronts tend to try and squeeze the high through thursday and friday, but through the centre of the high, we have the greatest risk of seeing some fog as we move into the small hours of friday. and here, too, our chilliest spots, dipping down below freezing. a little bit more cloud to the far southeast and the far northwest will perhaps mean our temperatures may stay above. and through friday daytime, those fronts, as you can see, just cap either end of the uk. through the core of the uk, you may think we‘re set up for a lot of sunshine. some areas will get some decent sunshine, but some of that fog will really struggle to clear. there‘s not much breeze set to work on it, and the sunshine isn‘t particularly strong at this time of year. and if the fog does stick, temperatures at 2—3 celsius are possible. as you can see, even in the best of early brightness on friday, we‘re looking at 6—7 celsius. as for the weekend, i suspect fairly similar temperatures and a fairly similar—looking picture overall. some chilly nights to come. you‘ll notice that our high looks a little different for saturday and sunday, but it stands across us from the continent. just a chance as well on sunday that we‘ll see a weather front trying to push into the northwest. but the effect overall is still the same — a lot of fine weather, light winds, but the chance of some fog forming by night that lingers through the day or lifts up into low cloud — hence sunshine for many parts of the uk may well be at a premium as we head on into the weekend. this is bbc news — the headlines: argentina has been plunged into mourning by the death of arguably its most famous son — the football legend diego maradona. people have poured out onto the streets to express their grief at the loss of the star whose sublime performances secured victory in the 1986 world cup. president trump has granted a full pardon to his former national security adviser — michael flynn. general flynn served three weeks in office at the start of the trump administration before pleading guilty to lying to the fbi during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. president—electjoe biden has used a televised address on the eve of thanksgiving to urge americans to recommit to the fight against coronavirus. mr biden said a grim season of division would give way to light and unity. americans, he said, were at war with coronavirus and not each other. the public spending watchdog has laid bare