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george michael has been announced. he was 53. he shot to fame in the 1980s as half of the band wham, and went on to have a hugely successful solo career. he s sold more than 80 million records worldwide. his publicist says he passed away peacefully at his home just outside london on sunday. andy moore looks back at his life. # well, i hadn t seen your face around town a while, so i greeted you, with a knowing smile. he burst onto the scene in the early 1980s when he formed wham with andrew ridgeley. the duo had number one singles around the world. they even conquered china, becoming the first western pop band to perform there. george michael loved fame but never became used to it. to be obviously a part of people s lives as an artist, that s what i dreamed of and that s what i m still grateful for. but my god, i wish i could cope with the other stuff the way other people do. i wish i d been born with that particular suit of armour, you know, because i wasn t. # you know ....
saying she ll work to get a brexit deal for everyone. bell tolls the new year is welcomed in at events around the uk amid heightened security measures and thousands of extra police. the city of hull becomes the uk s second city of culture. we re there live to see how organisers plan to transform it. in sport, premier league leaders chelsea beat stoke. the blues have now equalled arsenal s record of 13 consecutive wins in a single season. and matt has the weather. good morning. 2017 opens up cold and sunny for the northern half of the uk. cloudy, wet and increasingly cold further south. details coming up in 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story: at least 39 people have been killed, and many more injured, in an attack on a nightclub in the turkish city of istanbul. at least a dozen of the victims are known to be foreign nationals. the city s governor has said the gunman is still at large and has described him as a terrorist. sheref ishler reports. a new year cel ....
did everybody like the speech? applause. i ve been given good reviews. you had to like it. but we had a massive field of people. you saw it, packed. i get up this morning and turn on one of the networks and they show an empty field. i said, wait a minute, i made a speech. i looked out, it looked like a million, ora million and a half people. they showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there! the white house has accused some parts of the media of engaging in what it called false reporting of mr trump s inauguration as president. the white house spokesman, sean spicer, said the number of people who had gathered was the largest crowd to witness an inauguration, and that the media was sowing division about tweets and false narratives. perhaps unusually, mr spicer ended his news conference without taking any questions from any of the journalists present. he simply said goodbye and walked off the stage. more than a million people have turned out to prote ....
by announcing that he has a running war with the media. the remarks were made during a speech at the cia headquarters in virginia, where the new president described some members of the press as the most dishonest people on earth. he also accused the media of making it sound like he had a feud with the intelligence community and of publishing misleading information about the number of people who attended his inauguration ceremony on friday. here s a little of what he had to say. the reason you are my first stop is that as you know i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. applause. right? and they sort of made it sounds like i had a feud with the intelligence community. this is why you re my number one stop. it is exactly the opposite, and they understand that, too. i was explaining about the numbers. we did a thing yesterday, the speech. did everybody like the speech, right? applause. we had a massive field of peop ....
most threats nowadays. taken this into account, the security of our ports and detecting people at those are ports, whether they are affiliated with the terrorist organisation or not and the fact that the necessary security precautions are taken at the airports ‘s. we have agreed to make sure that the civil aviation authorities of both countries will work together to ensure this. there will be exercises realises 2017 to ensure this, so anyone going to the uk or coming to turkey, will have even safer travel. madam prime minister, we have realised certain meetings today and in those meetings, she confirmed her support to the government, first and foremost you know that we have experienced a treacherous onjuly stop currie. after this the united kingdom had an open stance and she showed her allegiance with the national will, with democracy, and with his excellency mr ambassador. top authorities of the british government wants more. again was shown to techie. they were v ....