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and final preparations as the commonwealth games get under way in birmingham tomorrow. it is the official opening ceremony. hello. good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. rail passengers are facing huge disruption after thousands of workers walked out in a continuing dispute about pay and working conditions. only about a fifth of britain s train services are running many areas having no services at all today. the red lines here show the routes where some trains are operating, but network rail has warned people to travel only if absolutely necessary. and in the last few minutes, aslef, the train drivers union, has announced a one day strike at nine train companies on saturday. the 13th of august. the union says firms failed to make a suitable pay offer. on the disruption, our correspondent emma simpson has this report. going nowhere. once again, half of the uk s rail network brought to a halt. at manchester piccadilly, some trains were leaving with travellers trying to navigat ....
many factories have been ordered to close, and shops are restricting their normal opening hours. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop. but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back. yeah. because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create ....
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop. but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back. yeah. because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away from home and family in environments where there wasn t ac ....
and a year on, well, it s still very much on air. just through the window here, there are many people journalists, producers working on the output as it goes on. and we re going to consider what s definitely been a tumultuous 12 months. i m joined by angelos frangopoulos, the ceo of gb news. thanks for being with us. thank you very much for having me, ros, and welcome to gb news. you re still going? we are going strong. in fact, it s been a tumultuous start, but i have to say it s been an exhilarating journey for the entire team and it has been something that really has been very typical of a start up, i think, particularly in the early days. tumultuous. there were probably other words being used as well. were there moments in that first week, that first month, where you thought, maybe this isn t going to hang together ? not at all, not at all. very typical of a start up that some things go right, some things go wrong, some people come through, some people don t. ....
football star cristiano ronaldo after accusing the complainant s attorney of using leaked and stolen documents. kathryn mayorga claims the portuguese footballer assaulted her in 2009. ronaldo denies the accusations made against him. he hasn t been charged. now on bbc news, the media show: hello and welcome to the media show. for this week s edition, we ve come to paddington in central london, to the newsroom of gb news, because, as i m sure you may remember, back onjune 13th last year, andrew neil and his programme launched gb news at 8pm on 13june. it was certainly a distinct launch. the studio was quite dark. there were some technical problems. it was widely discussed on social media. within weeks, andrew neil would be on holiday, never to return. within months, nigel farage would have his own prime time show. and a year on, well, it s still very much on air. just through the window here, there are many people journalists, producers working on the output as it goe ....