Laureate aung sun suu cine rejects accusations of genocide against the rowing machine leads me and miles defense of the uns highest court. Britains Prime Minister retreats into a fridge to avoid a live t. V. Interview on the last day of Election Campaigning while labors leader has problems of his own plus. The real danger is when politicians and see on making it look like real action is happening. As teen activists cretan burke to cry is a lack of action on Climate Change Time Magazine names her person of the year. The upper house of the Indian Parliament has approved a controversial bill that will grant citizenship to minorities who face religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan opposition politicians and human Rights Groups say it excludes muslim refugees from the 3 neighboring countries as part of the governments hindu nationalist agenda they have also been violent protests in the Northeastern States of. Reports now from new delhi. I was i they chanted slogans aro
Well, would we like it to be a bank holiday, or would it simply cost too much money . Theres one estimate that said it would cost the economy £4 billion for everyone to take a day off work, that being said, as, as Andrew Pierce was saying in the last show, weve got two Bank Holidays in may and none in april. Couldnt we just make one of them . Yeah. Do swapsies that last yeah. Do swapsies that last may. Bank holiday. Why do we have it . Yeah. If you did a direct swap, surely that would work. Although, interestingly, when i did a quick sort of straw poll amongst people this morning and you say have you ever celebrated Saint Georges day . They go , no, no. You know, for they go, no, no. You know, for many people the day passes by without them almost acknowledging it. Acknowledging it. Its like because we havent got that sort of focal point of celebration. I think so often celebration. I think so often for people. Well, right across the United Kingdom , its, its the United Kingdom, its, i
Inside the arena described a stampede as panic spread. We have been treating this as a Terrorist Incident and we believe at this stage the attack last night was conducted by one man. Right now the Prime Minister is chairing a meeting of the governments Emergency Committee, cobrament her Home Secretary, amber rudd described it as a barbaric attack. Screaming, shouting, just people mad, chaotic rush to the nearest exit. Suddenly something really hot just flew over us and landed behind me and my mum and my sister and then we all like dropped to the floor. This morning we are live In Manchester and we will be talking to people who were at that concert. Those young people, those teenagers, who were targeted by a Suicide Bomber. A lone man at this stage, as far as the police know, who exploded a device in the foyer of the Manchester Arena just after Ariana Grande finished her concert. Well get reaction from the police and from local politicians and from people who live and work In Manchester
Culture has brought us here to hulls cemetery for a Circus Performance with a difference. And continuing our celebration of difference, we meet mat fraser, who will be putting his Disability Centre stage to play shakespeares richard iii. Im a deformed actor playing a deformed character for the first time in britain, which is extraordinary that it should be the first, but its exciting that i get to do it. We will meet the army of 2017 volunteers giving up their free time for culture. Theres a starman, waiting in the sky. And go on a Trip Down Memory Lane with a spider from mars. Hello, im anne marie tasker, and im the arts and culture correspondent for the bbc here in hull, and this is kofi smiles. Im the face of hull, chosen by the bbc with a mission, to bring you culture whenever and wherever it happens. Today, we are taking it quite literally, because we are not in a concert hall or in a theatre, we are here in a graveyard. Its a setting for a performance which is quite difficult to
Culture has brought us here to hulls cemetery for a Circus Performance with a difference. And continuing our celebration of difference, we meet mat fraser, who will be putting his Disability Centre stage to play shakespeares richard iii. Im a deformed actor playing a deformed character for the first time in britain, which is extraordinary that it should be the first, but its exciting that i get to do it. We will meet the army of 2017 volunteers giving up their free time for culture. Theres a starman, waiting in the sky. And go on a Trip Down Memory Lane with a spider from mars. Hello, im anne marie tasker, and im the arts and culture correspondent for the bbc here in hull, and this is kofi smiles. Im the face of hull, chosen by the bbc with a mission, to bring you culture whenever and wherever it happens. Today, we are taking it quite literally, because we are not in a concert hall or in a theatre, we are here in a graveyard. Its a setting for a performance which is quite difficult to