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curtailing the power ofjudges. on newsnight at 10:30 p:m.. protests swell in isreal, with growing friction over plans to limit the power ofjudges. what happens now? plus, we will be diving into the tumultuous world of crypto with a hollywood star turned currency critic. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. tributes filled with love, affection and admiration have been pouring in for our beloved friend and colleague, george alagiah, who has died at the age of 67, nine years after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. he was a foreign correspondent at heart but, for the last 20 years, he was the face of the news at six the audience loved him and we loved him. our colleague allan little, who was george s close friend, has been looking back at george s remarkable life and career. three, two, one. go tape. at six o clock the ground war on iraq has begun. millions knew him as the face of the six o clock news. good evening and welcome to the six o clock news. ..and ....
good evening. george alagiah died this morning at the age of 67. he was at home surrounded by all his family. he was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in april 2014. his chances of living more than five years didn t look good, but he defied all the statistics. george kept working here in the newsroom until september last year. he loved it. it kept him going. he was very proud to do this job. he was a brilliantjournalist, a great team player, one of the most respected people here, and he had an extraordinary career. but above all, he was a very fine human being, as his friend and colleague allan little will now tell you. three, two, one. go, tape. at six o clock, the ground war on iraq has begun. millions knew him as the face of the six o clock news. good evening and welcome to the six o clock news. ..and for his calm, unflappable authority. good evening and welcome to the bbc s news at six. he was born in sri lanka in 1955 to christian tamil parents. as a child the fa ....
about belfast, which is home city to both of those men. one generation on from the so called troubles, northern ireland is seen as creative and cool, but have the wounds of the past really healed? ciaran hinds, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. now you are a man of belfast, born and raised there, and i think, as ijust mentioned, it s fair to say there is a real creative buzz around belfast and northern ireland today. but when you were a youth there, growing up, was it a place that you felt, as a sort of creative soul that you needed to get out of? it wasn t a place that i felt i needed to get out of. i mean, i did eventually, but there was a reason for that was because my chosen profession turned out to be acting, and there were no theatre schools in ireland at that time. so i left the island for the first time, to go to london, to a theatre school, to train. but when i was growing up, it was different days. i mean, we re talking about the 50s into the 60s, an ....
ciaran hinds, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. now you are a man of belfast, born and raised there, and i think, as ijust mentioned, it s fair to say there is a real creative buzz around belfast and northern ireland today. but when you were a youth there, growing up, was it a place that you felt, as a sort of creative soul that you needed to get out of? it wasn t a place that i felt i needed to get out of. i mean, i did eventually, but there was a reason for that was because my chosen profession turned out to be acting, and there were no theatre schools in ireland at that time. so i left the island for the first time, to go to london, to a theatre school, to train. but when i was growing up, it was different days. i mean, we re talking about the 50s into the 60s, and there was a lot we didn t know about the world, and we only learnt about it by going down to the central library, and opening big books, and finding out that way. and in a way, i guess the world, ....
friday marked the single busiest day in the skies ever. add in 34 million at risk of severe weather and we have a potential recipe for a travel disaster. we have your forecast and when you may want to steer clear of the roads. plus, a weekend of gun violence in america, at a nightclub in kansas and a block party in baltimore, injuring dozens and claiming two lives. what we re learning about these mass shootings. later, the ride of a lifetime that no one asked for. the scary moment at an amusement park that should give everyone pause. it makes me second-guess guesting on a roller coaster now. let s begin with what you need to know as you get ready for your independence day celebrations. sizzling temperatures and severe storms in the forecast while americans set travel records not seen since before the pandemic. aaa projecting nearly 51 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home as a storm system moves down over the carolinas and 36 million people under ....