launched to raise money to build a memorial in st paul s cathedral to those who ve died as a result of coronavirus. costing £2.3 million, it would be the first new structure of its kind inside st paul s for 150 years. charlotte wright reports. for centuries, st paul s cathedral has been a place to reflect on significant international events, which is why campaigners say it s a fitting site for this, a covid memorial. designed by an architect who himself lost his mother during the pandemic. there are now over 100,000 other families who will have gone through that same sense of dislocating anguish. and, for us, i think a memorial could not be more important. the plan is to build the memorial here at the north door, the site of a porch that was bombed during world war ii. and visitors will walk through to an area of reflection, where there will be a digital book of condolence and they can call up entries, including photos and epitaphs. more than 7,300 names have already been up
eileen had never met. hello, eileen. diane was her telephone friend throughout the pandemic and today they were able to meet face to face at last. i think it makes a big difference that somebody cares. how much difference having someone you could talk to? terrific. we ve had a good laugh, haven t we? we just realised that we at the same sense of humour i think and i would tell her tales and it would make her laugh, so i would tell her some more and i would stop you. just worked out really well. eileen has been on her own since losing her husband but there s many like her and age uk has lottery funding to maintain the telephone service. we found we had a lot of people volunteer to wanted to do it you have been furloughed and a lot of customers wanting to come on board who needed some extra support, so that is how the project snowballed. and those like diane who volunteered with the telephone service found the rewards flowed both ways. it must have been important to you as well
about the film itself, but who made it. the screening of ija by netflix has upset some critics who feel the big screen experience is being threatened by on line streaming services. greg dawson reports. it had the glamour of a hollywood cast, and the clamour of the red carpet photographers. it may have looked like any other premiere at cannes, but it was not. i took nature. and science. and i synthesised. ija, a film about friendship with a genetically modified superpig, was made by netflix. it is the first year that the streaming service has made an entry at cannes, upsetting purists because it will not get a cinematic release. at a screening before the awards, the logo was jeered. everytime the logo appeared there is a lot of controversy about its appearance. people were shouting and were really excited. some people are just like, oh, this is netflix. with a strategy of producing its own films and television series, netflix leaks now has 100 million subscribers, globally,
east. and all the while, there s low pressure close to the north of scotland. miserable fare here. there s no other way of describing it. it s wet and windy. going on to describe it in another way! it stays all day. those showers quite punchy come mid afternoon across the midlands, northern england, southern scotland. top temperature on the day, somewhere with the brightness in the south east, around 20 degrees oi’ in the south east, around 20 degrees or $0. in the south east, around 20 degrees or so. the showers beginning to fade during the course of the evening. that rain an ever present for a good pa rt that rain an ever present for a good part of the night across the north of scotland. but sunday is another day. it s a glorious one for many. save for the north western quarter of british isles. a steamy 2i. hello. this is bbc news. the us president flies to saudi arabia but as he leaves there s another twist in the controversial sacking of fbi chiefjames comey. a disagre
travel show. coming up this week on the travel show. we head to israel to meet a theatre group with a difference. the concept of every wardrobe is to take the disability and create an ability from it. and this is the life experience of the people who work here. we are on the night patrol at london zoo. this month s global guide features a stunning light show in sydney. and i leave the airport for a couple of hours to take a high speed stop over tour of rome. that is a lot of stuff to see in a short time. yeah! can we do it? yeah! let s go! we kick off this week with a truly unique theatrical phenomenon. one where the actors overcome some of the hardest hurdles you could imagine, and yet produce incredible performances. based in israel, nalagaat, which means please touch in israel, is the only deaf blind ensemble in the world. and we are going one hour out ofjerusalem to meet the groundbreaking group. jefa is one of the oldest sea ports in the world. it is so old, they say t