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hello from the rocky mountains in colorado. i m tom brook. welcome to our talking movies award season lookahead. we have travelled to the key film festivals of recent days, where this year s oscars race have been taking shape. it is a risky film, and for them to validate it means so much to me. from the venice film festival, we hearfrom maggie gyllenhaal, who took home the prize for her screenplay for her directorial debut. and the new zealand director jane campion win in venice for her psychological study and western, the power of the dog. it showed off the talents of its star benedict cumberbatch. i was terrified of meeting jane. you know. she was coming with all the respect i have for her iconic work. and we report from the telluride and toronto film festivals, where an animated documentary, flee, chronicling the plight of an afghan refugee from kabul from 25 years ago was a very solid hit. what this story does is it shows what it can do to human beings to be on the ....
the results are coming in after russia s three day elections, with president putin s united russia emerging as clearly the largest party in parliament. the central election commission says with 25 percent of the ballots counted, united russia hasjust over 44 percent of the vote. it s still quite early in the process but that s down from more than 54% at the last elections in 2016. few critics of the kremlin were allowed to run with supporters ofjailed opposition leader alexei navalny among those affected. this report from our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg there s something different about a russian election. polling stations turn into music halls. buses turn into polling stations. we found this parked just outside of moscow. we asked, why in a bus? he couldn t explain. the authorities say the vote was transparent and fair. it looks like a regular election there are voters and there are parties to vote for. but, most opposition politicians and activists, in ot ....
changes with this deep low to the north of the country on wednesday, bringing strong winds and gales, to scotland and a band of heavy rain, sinking southwards and slowly easing down, leaving sunshine and showers in its wake back to the south of it, another fine day to come, temperatures around 20 22. an autumnal feel to things for a time across the north of the uk as we head into thursday or friday. temperatures beginning to recover across the south, staying fine and quite warm, for the entire week. thank you, stav, with the latest weather. a reminder of our top story. amid rising energy costs, the government insists gas and electricity supplies are secure but adds there will be no bail out for energy firms in trouble. that s all from the bbc news at six, so it s goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. hello, and welcome to sportsday. i mjohn watson, i m john watson, our headlines tonight. england s tour of pakistan is off, as the e ....
school. that day i put my boys on the bus and my friend was calling and she said nick ole, it s a shooting and it s at our school. it was the day after thanksgiving i was in my family s home in chicago. my son was with his father in florid florida. i picked up the phone and there was just this dead silence and i said where is jordan? what happened to jordan? and that s when jordan s dad said jordan has been shot. you re 25 times more likely to die from gun violence in the united states of america than any other developed nation in the world. what does this say about us as americans? we re just willing to let people die because we re afraid of the nra? there is no other single issue in the lobby in the united states that had as much success against the wishes of the majority of the country. gun vie lepsolence is taking at a historic rate. it s only getting worse and worse and we re focused on the right to bear arms and not the right to live. the nra had managed to ....
polls for snap elections. a tight race with justin trudeau hoping his handling of the pandemic will keep him in power. although the taliban are showing increasing signs of repressive government, some women are not backing down. a group of brave activists protesting outside what used to be the ministry on sunday. the taliban closed it and replaced it with their feared ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. the protests come after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them as well as by not allowing them to go to school. you cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. now, a private preschool opened on sunday in kabul with both boys and girls attending. that s a rare sight. the taliban insist that public secondary school for girls will be allowed, but they say they have to set up what they call safe transport ....