in a moment on bbc news, the film review. but first, here s click. jump on in. thank you. so you re not using the steering wheel at all? you re using a. oh, wow! laughter. which way are we going? which way are we going! i m at nasa in houston where lucienjunkin is taking me for a spin. using both a steering wheel and a joystick, you can point this vehicle in one direction and drive it in another. you feel the forces in your tailbone. oh, i can feel the forces in my tailbone! and if that seems really confusing, well, it is. but this is drive by wire technology, which means the onboard computer works out which way you want to go, and then calculates what to do with the wheels. all right, so, we ll just go this way. this is just one of many experiments into how we might live, work and drive on the moon or mars. although this vehicle may also pave the way for smarter cars in smarter cities back down here on earth, where i have to say, parking may be one of the coolest things you
just opened at the edinburgh international film festival and is in cinemas now. you can consume it on digital from the 23rd of august. phone rings. who is this? static. owen? is that. i can t hear you. look out of the window. next up, a psychological horror, the night house. rebecca hall stars as beth, a teacher who is reeling from the sudden death of her husband, owen. she s left alone in the lakeside home that they shared, having vivid nightmares about a ghostly presence. rummaging around in owen s belongings, she finds sketches that tell a very strange story and tries to investigate while navigating her grief. there are plenty of effective scares in this film from director david bruckner, who helmed the rural horror, the ritual. figures flicker and loom in the shadows, and sudden sounds will have you jumping out of your seat. but the script also explores beth s internal affairs. beth s internal fears. she is terrified to discover that she may not have known her husband as
good afternoon. the pentagon has said the us remains in regular communication with the taliban but there has been no change in what it described as the enemy s situation despite extensive security threats. it comes after the us embassy advised its citizens not to travel to kabul airport until asked to because of security issues outside its gates. the us says its helped 2,500 american nationals to leave the city over the past week. outside the airport, there are scenes of panic and chaos. us forces are firing shots into the air in an attempt to control the crowds, and images on social media show soldiers dealing with bodies. a pentagon spokesmen says he can t rule out the possibility of american troops going outside of kabul airport to get people. meanwhile, the taliban s co founder and head of its political wing, mullah abdul ghani baradar, has arrived in kabul. a taliban official are the group is making progress in forming a government in afghanistan and aiming to improve
in15 minutes. in 15 minutes. sports day. now it s time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review with me, anna smith. i m filling in for mark kermode to review this week s releases. if you re going to make a movie about an eccentric truffle hunter searching furiously for his stolen pig, then surely you want to cast nicolas cage. whistling. in pig, he plays a disheveled hermit who lives in the oregonian wilderness with his beloved foraging hog. when she s taken in a violent kidnapping, he doesn t stop to nurse his wounds. he heads straight into town. haunting the restaurants and bars of portland, this christ like spectre will stop at nothing to find his pig. he sjoined in his search by alex wolf s truffle dealer, who lives in the shadow of his rich father. pig is billed as a thriller, but i think that s a misleading label. while there s some suspense, this is a gently paced story about the bond between human and animal, and the extraordinary power of sensory me
the french president is addressing both houses of parliament at the palace of versailles. and andy murray begins the defence of his title after brushing off injury fears. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a 16 year old girl has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of seven year old katie rough. the little girl died injanuary after being found seriously injured on a playing field in york. she later died in hospital. and we can now ci’oss to our correspondent, phil bodmer, outside leeds crown court. as you say, katie rough died from severe lacerations to her neck and chest on a playing field in the woodthorpe area on the south western outskirts of york in january. woodthorpe area on the south western outskirts of york injanuary. she was attended to by paramedics and taken to hospital, but later died of those injuries. a 15 yard goal was subsequently arrested and charged with murder. today at leeds crown court, the girl who is now 16 and can t be named, pleaded guilty to m