And the welsh opera singer, bryn terfel. Thick fog is causing delays at airports for a second day. Heathrow says 45 flights have been cancelled, because planes were in the wrong place following yesterdays disruption. And its new year down under, sydney welcomes in 2017 in style with a spectacular firework display. Now on bbc news, witness. Hello, and welcome to witness with me, tanya beckett. Im here at the British Library in london for the last time this year to bring you five of our favourite stories from 2016. Well meet a former member of chairman maos infamous red guards, a woman astronaut who trained with the challenger Space Shuttle crew, and an art restorer who brought a Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece back to life. But first, witness has travelled to the Bamiyan Valley in afghanistan. For over 1,000 years two huge statues of Buddha Towered over the valley, but in 2001 they were destroyed by the taliban. Said musa hussein was one of the local people forced to lay dynamite around t
And so far, the focus has been on the british position. What is theresa mays plan . Again, completely artificial. In 2017, we are going to get real, because we will hear the European Union position as well. And when that becomes clear, i think the dynamic of the internal politics of the conservative party, the position of other mps in the house of commons, scotland, will become 100 times more complicated than the position at the end of 2016. So i think brexit in 2017 is going to become very, very difficult for theresa may in particular, and the and the government as a whole. Thats something to look forward to. Can i make a prediction about 2017, which i rarely do, which is that brexit will be top of the news agenda in britain, and all across europe it wont be. It will be one of the things, but the French Election will be top of the agenda. Of course. The german election in germany, the italian banks disaster. It might come a close second, i think, after all the elections taking place i
And the welsh opera singer, bryn terfel. Thick fog is causing delays at airports for a second day. Heathrow says 45 flights have been cancelled, because planes were in the wrong place following yesterdays disruption. And its new year down under, sydney welcomes in 2017 in style with a spectacular firework display. Now on bbc news, witness. Hello, and welcome to witness with me, tanya beckett. Im here at the British Library in london for the last time this year to bring you five of our favourite stories from 2016. Well meet a former member of chairman maos infamous red guards, a woman astronaut who trained with the challenger Space Shuttle crew, and an art restorer who brought a Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece back to life. But first, witness has travelled to the Bamiyan Valley in afghanistan. For over 1,000 years two huge statues of Buddha Towered over the valley, but in 2001 they were destroyed by the taliban. Said musa hussein was one of the local people forced to lay dynamite around t