67,000 tickets given out, 80 of them free. 12 and up have to Show Proof of vaccination to get in. The mayor calls the concert historic, celebration for a city thats overcome incredible challenges in the last year. The mayor teamed up with Producer Clive davis to produce tonights show that includes andrea bow check ee, ll cool j, Jennifer Hudson taking the stage. Paul simon, no stranger to concerts in Central Park, having performed two on the Great Lawn. And the boss, Bruce Springsteen will be performing as well. We wait to start a big show. Want to check in with reporters on the ground in Central Park. Erica Hill Tracking Tonights Music headlines. What do you expect . It is a great lineup to put it mildly. You hit on some of them, anderson. There are folks in the pen to my left excited about Andrea Bocelli and the boss. It is a city as diverse as the city of New York itself. A lot of hometown love, a lot of new York Artists and artists from all over. That plays to the diversity of the
My question for you is this true as we go on and if yes, why is it harder for people in d. C. To get it . I dont want to blame either side of the equation but there are different considerations. I think the national Security Establishment including current end former national security officials will always look at Pre 9 11 afghanistan and looking at the history of afghanistan. Regardless of all of that, The American people lost enthusiasm for this effort more than a decade ago and so rallying public support for the far away effort, there is always a little bit more for afghanistan than iraq. This was viewed as extremely difficult place to put our men and women and i mean i said it there, i standby exactly what i said, if it is anything, it is more now and sure you see on so media. Responding to just those reactions is the gateway of something resembling Fox News, we stand the story and we cover the facts. The White House understands that. The White House feels this dynamic is very true
primary defeat, saying she s thinking about running for president. the congresswoman is one of donald trump s fiercest critics, and lost to a candidate hand picked by mr trump. she says she ll make a decision in the coming months. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital. this city buzzes with creativity. now artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you r
so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back, because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away from home and family, in environments where there wasn t actually much to play with. it was sometimes quite lonely, and you had to use your imagination. do you think that was important in your development? it probably was, and i ve never really thought about that. it probably was, but at the time it wasn t part of my plan. i mean, i had no intention or thought about being an artist. and the period yo
about running for president. rolling out the rocket that could pave the way for astronauts to return to the moon. after one venue cancels his latest production, over comments on trans rights and the metoo movement, monty python s terry gilliam, says british theatre, needs to be more courageous. i think the whole artistic community has to be brave. it is what art is about, pushing the limits. it s hello and welcome to the programme. officials in ukraine are warning that the situation at the russian occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power station is approaching critical . emergency workers in the nearby city of zaporizhzhia have been staging drills to practise cleaning operations in the event of radioactive contamination. russia took control of the nuclear plant the biggest in europe in early march and there s been recent heavy shelling at and around the site with both sides blaming each other for the attacks. our correspondent james waterhouse reports from the nearby city