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hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. taking us through this week s cinema releases is anna smith. a very warm welcome, anna. nice to see you again. thank you. what have you been watching? i ve got a varied menu for you today. we re starting with a restaurant film. it s set over one night over a busy london restaurant. it s called boiling point and it stars stephen graham. then we re going for a slice of licorice pizza. this is set in 1973 and it comes from the great paul thomas anderson. and finally, we re looking at a film starring benedict cumberbatch, the electrical life of louis wain. that looks like something for everyone. so, tell us about boiling point. this is a fascinating film. this was shot in one take in a london restaurant and the idea is that stephen graham plays a chef who s struggling. he s having a bit of a hard time with this family, with his financial woes, and then it s the busiest night of the year in this restaurant and it ....
it may be a wet and windy start to the weekend for many, but as we go into the afternoon across many western areas we should see a bit more sunshine at times. it s saturday, the 8th of january. our top story: up to 500,000 flat owners across the uk will no longer be liable for the cost of replacing dangerous cladding on their properties, under new government proposals. the plans, set to be announced by the housing secretary michael gove, would instead see developers forced to pay up to an additional $4 billion to help resolve the crisis, which has left many unable to sell their homes. our policy editor lewis goodall has more. it s estimated that more than half a million people are caught up in britain s fire safety crisis. and we can exclusively reveal the government s latest plans to deal with it. up up until now, the government s approach breakdown as follows. dangerous cutting removal would be paid for by the building safety front only for buildings of 18.5 metres in ....
through western scotland, maybe across the peaks and pennines and maybe some rain gathering down to the south west by the end of the day. blustery winds to begin with. slowly easing as the afternoon continues. temperatures, well, ranging generally between five to eight celsius. a little bit milder in the far south west. some rain arrives to the west for the start of monday. cloudier skies in the sheltered east. hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died within 28 days of a positive covid test since the pandemic began. lawyers for novak djokavic claim he was given a vaccine exemption to enter australia, because he d had a recent covid infection. thousands more flat owners will be spared the expense of replacing unsafe cladding under new government plans to make developers offer four billion pounds towards the costs. at least 21 people have died in north eastern pakistan after heavy snowfall trapped them in ....
and he wouldn t turnovers cards but it felt like he knew something we did not know. and i think he did, on a bunch of things. on how they could get infrastructure done and other things. but tonight, he just kind of admitted, nope, i don t know anything more about manchin and sinema then you know publicly about where they are in voting rights. lawrence, what did you think of him saying that between now and mlk day, with just two weeks from now. that there will be a vote. there will be action in the senate on changing the rules so that voting rights can be approved with the majority vote. i was surprised to see him put a date on it. to say that this is the date by which we are going to do it. what do you make of that strategically? well, he essentially said something similar earlier in december that would be early january. all he is saying is that he now knows is that he is going to have a vote. and he doesn t know if he s going to wind up out. but he is going to go to ....
tonight from new york to new orleans, from vegas to san juan, this is cnn s new year s eve live with appearances by katy perry. regina king, lessry jordan, patti labelle, sherry oterry. k.t. tunstell, kris jenner, james taylor plus more surprises and from the heart of times square, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. and happy new year, everyone. we are live in times square for what is going to be a very fun night. it is going to be a fun night. it s the warmest i don t know how many years i ve been doing this. this is the warmest it has ever been. it feels great. and katy perry, regina king, william shatner. so many more surprises. now i had thought the roaring 20s would have started by now. the roaring 20s? yeah. we re in the 20s. so where that s not going to happen. you have to reset. but we made it we keep resetting. we made it through another year and we ll see what the next year brings. it s a greatly reduced crowd here in ....