When neil armstrong takes one small step for a man, the concertgoer reacts by stating, never mind the moon, let s get some of that cash in harlem a sentiment echoed by the reverend jesse jackson. The fact that no one was interested in this historic footage of the harlem cultural festival for so long stands as evidence of the whitewashing of american history, a subject that seems particularly pertinent at the moment. Plaudits, then, to director ahmir thompson, aka musician questlove, who begins and ends his film with a festival goer reviewing the newly uncovered footage for the first time, and then tearfully thanking the film maker for proving to him that he isn t crazy this really happened. We wanted progress. We are black people and we should be proud of this. We were coming together to say this is our world, and how beautiful it was. Thanks to this terrific film, that s something we can all share in. I can take you higher. We believed in what we felt in here. Just go do it! summe
also in the programme. the former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin chooses not to give evidence in a dramatic final day of testimony in the george floyd murder trial. and the food fight over a childrens birthday cake. m&s are going to court over colin the caterpillar and the aldi knock off. we will get an early adjudication from celebrityjudge rob rinder. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington, christian fraser is in london. when president biden talked on the phone to president putin two days ago, he warned him that the us was going to respond to russia s provocations from cyber hacking to election interference. us officials said the retaliation would be seen and unseen. well today we got the seen part of it. in the next half hour the president will set out new sanctions that blacklist russian companies, make it harder for moscow to borrow money and the us is expelling ten russian diplomats accused of spying. the biden administration says the sanctions are retalia
more than a third of the world s population are active users of facebook and its other social media products. no company in the world has such power and yet such little transparency. but things are changing. since friday, a consortium of news organizations in the united states has begun publishing a series of stories called the facebook papers the evidence comes from hundreds of internal company documents which have been sent to the securities and exchange commission and provided to congress, by facebook whistleblower frances haugen and her legal counsel. the evidence points directly at mark zuckerberg. time and again in these papers, company insiders say the facebook ceo chose profit over safety, compromising his own rules, with disastrous outcomes. today, ms haugen was here in the uk to give evidence to a parliamentary committee. she told them her former employer is unquestionably making hate worse . the algorithms take people who have very mainstream interests interes
bringing us tomorrow. with me are natalie fahy, senior editor, nottingham post, derby telegraph and lincolnshire echo and annabel denham who is the director of communications, institute of economic affairs. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. it s a western final. get all the papers in. what are you reading having a bagel. according to the mirror. according to the mirror. can he fix it? no he can t, says the metro, which reports that the prime minister has dismissed fears over inflation and supply issues. the financial times focuses on borisjohnson s battle with business saying he will tell the conservative party conference that some industries use immigration as an excuse not to invest in staff. the times reports that the prime minister will announce a significant rise to the minimum wage within the next few weeks the lowest earners could receive £9.42 an hour the mirror takes a less favourable view saying borisjohnson has no heart and comparing the proposed universal
action is being taken against the sun newspaper. legal action against the mirror group over allegations of phone hacking. who did you hack? be quicker to say who i didn t hack, wouldn t it? be easier. celebrities, politicians. i was living in this sort of superhighway of illicit information. it was exciting. you felt like a spy. i don t know to this day how many people have heard my deepest secrets, my desires. phone hacking was not practised by the mail on sunday or the daily mail. you have just about anybody who s ever appeared in a tabloid newspaper saying, give me large wodges of cash, please. i think it s actually a legal scandal. it s not the money i m after. it s.it s to expose their guilt. it s justice. as long ago as i can remember, all i ever wanted to do was act. that was it. that s my only memory. i ve been lucky that i have loved myjob. but the other side of it, which i was completely and utterly unprepared for, was overwhelming. i fell very much in love wit