Sensation , has died. He was 76 and had cancer. The African American running back was also a successful hollywood actor. But his fame turned to infamy in 1994 when he was accused of murdering nicole brown, and a friend of hers in los angeles. Journalist David Margolick covered the oj Simpson Trial for the New York Times he told me what that covering the trial had been like. Well, yeah, it was really at the centre of the world for several months. I mean, covering it was unlike any experience that i ever had before. Everybody was watching it. Everybody was talking about it. There was enormous pressure on covering it well and sensitively, and it was an enormous professional challenge to get through it. A professional challenge because in part it was so divisive, wasnt it, in the way that americans saw the case, the trial and indeed the verdict . Well, thats true. And i think that on the one hand, you could get buried in the testimony and the day to day challenges of covering a trial on th
Having won his first green jacket last year. Thejump from no majors to us open was smaller than what it was from the us open to the masters. It is the biggest tournament in the world. No offence to anything else but it is probably the most formative one by people who dont even play golf, that is what makes the difference, where your notoriety goes up quite a bit. You can follow the masters on the bbc sport website and app. South africas erik van rooyen, i can see, is the first to tee off. These are some of the updated tee times for round one. Jon rahm wont Get Out There for a few hours yet. Five time winner tiger woods is scheduled to be among the later starters too. Dustinjohnson, collin morikawa, and Tommy Fleetwood set to be last out. It looks likely that a number of first rounds will have to be finished on friday. The weather is thankfully looking a lot better for the next three days. After two nights of cracking Champions League football, attention now turns to the Europa League w
Makers are trying to win them back. A militant group in has released a beheading of a frenchman. They complain claim to be affiliated with the Islamic State and they demanded the air strikes be stopped. The footage released on monday shows the man being forced to kneel in front of four masked men and then held down and murdered. Group members warned they would kill the man unless French Forces stopped attacking Islamic State militants. The countrys president , Francois Hollande says he acknowledges the murder. Translator a french citizen was unfairly killed by a militant group that is allied with the Islamic State. The International Community must come together and must fight against terrorism. Hollande has condemned the Algerian Group and pledged to continue fighting extremists including carrying out air strikes in iraq. World leaders at the u. N. General assembly in new york have turned their attention to Islamic State in iraq and syria. U. S. President barack obama led a major debat
States to agree to the resumption of the suspected sixparty talks on north Koreas Nuclear program. Translator i look forward to having a deep discussion with secretary kerry and explore how we can Work Together to relaunch the sixparty talks. Negotiators from north and south korea, the u. S. , china, japan and russia launched the talks in 2003. The North Koreans and the chinese want to reopen the talks without any preconditions. But officials from the u. S. , south korea and japan want authorities in pyongyang to take concrete steps towards denuclearization before they renegotiate. U. S. Eresearchers said a north Korean Nuclear reactor thats been shut down for years may be back up and running and say the facility is capable of generating weapons grade plutonium. Caroline kennedy says if she becomes the u. S. Ambassador to japan, shell work to bolster bilateral ties in line with the wishes of her father, the late president john f. Kennedy. Kennedy said her father hoped to be the first s
Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, dial up internet, apple releases the ipod, very tight suits and furry friends. It is clicks 20th anniversary and these are our greatest hits. Welcome to click, im spencer kelly. On the sixth of april 2000, a plucky new tv programme hit the air, promising to talk about something that many people, many in the media thought was too scary, too nerdy technology. No one thought that programme would last more than a couple of years and yet 20 years later, click is still on air. Just. Because its impossible to believe that were celebrating our 20th birthday in a world that seems eerily similar to those dystopian sci fi films that we geeks grew up on. Like many programmes, were going to find it hard to stay on air during the lockdown. But, for old times sake, because its our birthday, were going to forget about it all and take one last look at click through the ages. Get ready for 20 years in 20 minutes. Click 0nline. It is the age old story, bbc