Last resort, according to Health Secretary, sajid javid. The president of south africa pays tribute to desmond tutu as the spiritual father of our new nation. And the archbishops daughter also spoke movingly at his funeral. We say, thank you, daddy, for the many ways you showed us love, for the many times you challenged us, for the many times you comforted us. Today is officially the hottest new years day on record with temperatures reaching 16. 2 degrees in st james s park in central london. The actor, comedian and movie legend mel brooks talks to the bbc s alan yentob about his life. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Leading figures in the uks Battle Against Covid 19 are among more than 1,200 people to be recognised in the new year honours list. Knighthoods have been given to the uk governments chief medical advisor professor chris whitty and his deputyJonathan Van Tam, as well as the chief medical officers for wales and scotland. Theyre
Now on bbc news mel brooks talks to alan yentob about his life. I know the word can be overused but mel brooks is a legend. A movie legend, a musical legend, and a comedy legend. Oscars, emmys, baftas, tonys, grammys, hes won them all many times over. Springtime for hitler and germany deutschland is happy and gay were marching to a faster pace look out, here comes the master race. Mel brooks was fearless, he broke every rule, but he kept to the ones for lockdown, even telling his son max to go away. Im going, im going. Love you. Hes been locked in writing his autobiography, and after some persuasion, let me in to talk about it. Alan, you flew on an aeroplane all the way from london. Idid. To see me here in southern california. Yeah, and this pandemic, which, when max introduced you, 16 Million People were watching that. So you are a bit of a hero. Well. Also, max, what are you going to do . You cant go to your lunches, you cant go to your office, you cant do your on stage stand up with
I know the word can be overused, but mel brooks is a Legend A Movie legend, a musical legend and a comedy legend. Oscars, emmys, baftas, tonys, grammys hes won them all many times over. Springtime for hitler and germany. Deutschland is happy and gay. We are marching to a faster pace, look out, here comes the master race. Mel brooks was fearless he broke every rule. But he kept to the ones for lockdown, even telling his son, max, to go away. Im going, im going. Love you. Hes been locked in writing his autobiography and, after some persuasion, let me in to talk about it. Alan, you flew on an aeroplane all the way from london. Idid. To see me here in southern california. Yes, and this pandemic, which, when max introduced you, 16 Million People were watching that, so you are a bit of a hero. Well, also, max, what are you going to do . You cannot go to your lunches, you cannot go to your office, you cannot do your onstage stand up with a lot of people. You are stuck. You are stuck with your
To alan yentob about his life. I know the word can be overused, but mel brooks is a Legend A Movie legend, a musical legend and a comedy legend. Oscars, emmys, baftas, tonys, grammys hes won them all many times over. Springtime for hitler and germany deutschland is happy and gay we are marching to a faster pace, look out here comes the master race. Mel brooks was fearless he broke every rule. But he kept to the ones for lockdown, even telling his son, max, to go away. Im going, im going. Love you. Hes been locked in writing his autobiography and, after some persuasion, let me in to talk about it. Alan, you flew on an aeroplane all the way from london. Idid. To see me here in southern california. Yes, and this pandemic, which, when max introduced you, 16 Million People were watching that, so you are a bit of a hero. Well, also, max, what are you going to do . You cannot go to your lunches, you cannot go to your office, you cannot do your onstage stand up with a lot of people. You are st
saying, yes it s pretty bad. when you talk to caucuses on both sides and you get a glimpse of the inside players. now from the 15th annual harlem book fair a discussion of science and health. this is an hour and 15 minutes. so our first panel is titled mythologies of race, good science and health. before i introduce our moderator i also want to acknowledge rich who worked with me tirelessly in pulling these panelists together , discussing and coming up with the ideas of what are the conversations that we are going to present, what are the conversations that impact us as a community and we should discuss and see if we can find a way in or a way out. so again thank you so much, rich. our moderator for a first panel is earth s are sheldon krimsky. he is the author of genetic justice, dna databank in criminal investigations and civil liberties. he is a professor of humanities and social sciences. he is that tops university so you had me there. tops. oh that stuffs. you know