to brain cancer. hello and welcome whether you re watching in the uk or around the world. senior huawei executive meng wanzhou is expected to return to china after being freed by a canadian extradition judge. it comes three years after she was detained in canada, because the us wanted to extradite her to face charges of financial impropriety. ms meng s legal team earlier agreed a deal with the us department ofjustice, under which charges against her would effectively be dropped. that opened the way, just over an hour ago, for a court in vancouver to end the extradition case. she had always maintained her innocence, and had this to say outside the courtjust a few minutes ago. over the past three years, my life has been turned upside down. it was a disruptive time for me as a mother, a wife and a company executive. but i believe every cloud has a silver lining. it really was an invaluable experience in my life. i will never forget all the gracious i received people around the w
a temporary visa scheme to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in britain as fuel supply problems mount. emergency services order more people to leave their homes as volcanic eruptions continue on the spanish island of la palma. hello and welcome whether you re watching in the uk or around the world. senior huawei executive, meng wanzhou, is expected to return to china after being freed by a canadian extradition judge. it comes three years after she was detained in canada, because the us wanted to extradite her to face charges of financial impropriety. ms meng s legal team earlier agreed a deal with the us department ofjustice, underwhich charges against her would effectively be dropped. that opened the way, just over an hour ago, for a court in vancouver to end the extradition case. she had always maintained her innocence, and had this to say outside the courtjust a few minutes ago. over the past three years, my life has been turned upside down. it was a disrupt
looks back at his life. don t you get fed up of each other? oh, yes, yes. i call him golden balls, you know, now. - did you ever say, you dirty rat? never. jimmy cagney. orson welles. jimmy stewart. these were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. the fact is that you re a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he? why is that? well, number one, he s ugly. his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2,000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. he s not aggresive! rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a y
his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. he s not aggresive! rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first that actually challenged the assumption that if you re born into a mining family, you followed your dad s footsteps down to the pit. his escape was journalism, which took him to granada tv. ladies and gentlemen, miss shirley maclaine. and then, in 1971, the parkinson show. i hope i can get away with this, it s a beauty. it was a programme that could transfor
of the tournament so far. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the broadcaster sir michael parkinson has died at the age of 88. in a career spanning seven decades, he interviewed the world s biggest stars on his long running tv chat show. the bbc s director general tim davie described sir michael as truly one of a kind, and the king of the chat show . our arts & media correspondent david sillito looks back at a long life and career. i call him golden balls now. jimmy caune , i call him golden balls now. jimmy cagney. orson i call him golden balls now. jimmy cagney, orson welles, i call him golden balls now. jimmy cagney, orson welles, jimmy - i call him golden balls now. jimmy - cagney, orson welles, jimmy stewart. these were distant, mysterious green gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. the gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. into your living room. the fact is, ou are into your living room. the fact is, you are a