now on bbc news, the media show piers morgan returns. ros atkins interviews piers morgan after signing for rupert murdoch s new talktv channel. hello, and welcome to the media show. our guest today is the star signing of rupert murdoch s new talktv network. it s piers morgan, of course. and he won tjust have a show in the uk, it will also be streamed on fox nation in the us, it will be broadcast on sky news australia. as well as that, there is a column in the sun, in the new york post, and there is a book deal with harpercollins, too. all of which is owned by rupert murdoch, all of which is a significant bet on one man grabbing the world s attention. let s hear why he thinks that bet is worth making. piers morgan, thank you for coming on the show. how does that happen, how does a deal get thrashed out? it was fortuitous, really. the whole good morning britain blow up with the meghan markle thing, and the free speech debate, it was all raging in the uk, predominantly, around
missing on saturday. and british boxer tyson fury retains his wbc heavyweight title after beating dillian whyte at wembley stadium. hello and welcome to bbc news. good afternoon from clichy in the northwestern suburbs of the french capital paris. it isa it is a lovely morning, a great day to be out, this is a bustling little courtyard, one would expect plenty of people to be rolling in and casting their vote. we have seen a trickle over the course of the morning, worth remembering that this is actually the start of the easter holidays here in paris. will that have an impact on the turnout? i am just been told, we have got some figures here, figures on the turn so far, they havejust figures here, figures on the turn so far, they have just been released, 26.4% turning out by this point in the day. if we go back five years, it was 28.2%. it is lower and we have to wait to see if that will pan out through the course of the day. a quick word about this suburb, it is home to the fr
in the past, she was still at the height of her powers and had still many great stories within her. thank ou. dame hilary mantel, who has died aged 70. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. good afternoon. for most of us, we have quite a lot of sunshine around this afternoon. with that, quite a cool this afternoon. with that, quite a cool, fresh feel, and one or two showers. as we can see from the earlier satellite and radar pictures, showers have been pushing in from the north west, most plentiful across scotland and northern ireland. the exception to the sunshine and showers rule is across the south east corner, where we have a stripe of cloud and outbreaks of rain, very slow moving. the ray will be a feature in the south east of england perhaps for the next 2a hours. temperatures between 13 and 20 celsius. the rain keeps falling across south east england this evening and overnight. elsewhere, clear spells, one or two showers, especially some drifting across part
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