It s the beginning. It s the start of the whole season. All that and more in this festival review edition of talking movies. Venice, one of the world s oldest and most prestigious film festivals, was certainly star studded this year, and among the figures making an impact was 49 year old angelina jolie for her portrayal of the celebrated late opera singer, maria callas, in the picture maria. Emma jones was at the venice film festival for talking movies. Emma: angelina jolie is portraying a woman said to have had the voice of an angel. American born greek soprano maria callas, who died in 1977 aged only 53, isjudged to be the world s greatest ever female opera star and certainly the most famous. She s been the subject of a documentary maria by callas. A fictitious re imagining of the last week of her life is the subject of maria by chilean director pablo larrain. That is not what the doctor told us we should do. Was he even a doctor? asjolie is seen here as callas, talking to her butl
And senior adviser at the non profit razom for ukraine. She shared her insights on the discussion around permitting ukraine to target russia. When we spoke a few days ago, you are pretty optimistic that we would have a decision on these long range missiles. What do you think is holding things up? do you think is holding things u ? , do you think is holding things u ? , ~ , do you think is holding things u. ? ,. , ,,. , , up? hey, lucy. So there is still up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t know up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t know if i up? hey, lucy. So there is| still. . . We don t know if the decision has been made. Formally it has not been made. There is rumours that the storm shadows are going to be allowed, but we certainly don t know, and we have to say that is a possibility that london will begin to allow ukraine to use them, and that one probably makes a lot o
The latest attacks in ukraine s sumy region. Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldening vladimir putin with its hesitation over long range missiles. President biden and sir keir starmer had met to decide whether to allow kyiv to use storm shadow missiles against targets inside russia. I don t think much about vladimir putin. Despite this putdown, there is still a cautious approach and no official change in policy. This wasn t a meeting about a particular capability. That wasn t why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space which we took, the time which we took, to have a strategic discussion. These long range missiles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplies storm shadows to ukraine, but only for use within ukraine. The coming weeks could see that change, with them being allowed to be fired into russia at military installations. Some military observers say ukraine isjustified in wanting to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen
Chapter in the saga in venezuela after a government that cannot fully prove that they have won the elections. This is just the deterioration of what we re seeing the country after a legitimate election. This particular chapter should not take many by surprise. If you looked back since may 2023, up to january 202a, since may 2023, up to january 2024, there have been five allegedly attempts against the government that have been made public by the regime. They have been the arrest of about 32 people, some colombian citizens in the piles, allegedly trying to overturn the government. in the past. This is one of the examples. If we look at the current situation we are in, a lot of international special in spain, the parliament in spain recognised gonzalez as the president and welcomed him, but when you saw the us tightening sanctions against the venezuelan government, then you can see that they could be in a position of desperation, that they are trying to come up with this sort of action
Animals, stuffed pets. You might even catch a glimpse of a real live pussycat doll. Yes, even nicole scherzinger, lead singer of the aforementioned supergroup, was brought in to bring some bling to the tech discussions. Now, you ll find all of the tech show staples here. Robo vacuums and lawnmowers check. Flying car check. Not actually flying. . . Buzzer. . Check. Loads and loads and loads of screens check, check, check. Massagers for the whole body, orjust the ankles. . . Quivering: er. . . Now, although this is overwhelmingly a home appliance show, even if you are not wowed by white goods, there are still some very interesting innovations here. Just making myself a water smoothie at the moment. But here s a question for you. Where is this food processor getting its powerfrom? look, no cables. It s getting the electricity from the induction hob. What?! we re getting used to induction hobs in kitchens, where the hob doesn t generate heat, it generates electromagnetic waves, which