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the year long arts festival. and in half an hour, i will be looking back at the past 12 months for the royal family, dominated by the celebrations to mark the queen s 90th birthday, that s review 2016: the royal year with me, daniela relph. good evening and welcome to bbc news. a huge police operation is under way in istanbul to find a gunman who shot dead 39 people at a nightclub. the man opened fire at the reina club at around half past one in the morning local time. dozens of injured remain in hospital. 15 foreigners from israel, saudi arabia and morocco were among the dead. our turkey correspondent selin girit has sent this report. we are only seconds away from a new year. one of the most famous nightclubs in istanbul, reina, packed with a jubilant crowd, ready to welcome in the new year. five, four, three, two. they are counting down to what they hope will be a fresh new start. but then this happens. a man armed with a long barrelled weapon opens fire outside the v ....
influential programmes on american tv, the daily show. born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. with critics claiming that donald trump s victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking? trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, zeinab. you were born in 1984, six years before nelson mandela was released. your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. how did it feel to be born a crime? well, the truth is for me it didn t feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. my parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ills, that s what i talk about in the book, i don t mak ....
hello, and welcome to dateline london s look ahead to 2017. what a joyful year it s going to be. britain will move calmly towards brexit, the european union will solve all its problems with migration, unemployment and insolvent banks, donald trump will begin a glorious four years as president, the middle east will finally be at peace, and we can all dream. back in the real world, let s hear what our expert panel think. i m joined by stryker mcguire of bloomberg markets, abdel bari atwan who is a writer and broadcaster on arab affairs, agnes poirier of marianne, and steve richards who is a british political commentator. britain first, to coin a phrase, and we can all predict that article 50 will indeed be invoked by march, beginning the formal process of leaving the european union. but where will brexit, and indeed the eu, be by the end of 2017? with political change in france and italy, and possibly in germany too. what do we think is going to happen? i think 2017 will ....
and satirist trevor noah, who presents one of the most influential programmes on american tv, the daily show. born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. with critics claiming that donald trump s victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking? trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, zeinab. you were born in 1984, six years before nelson mandela was released. your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. how did it feel to be born a crime? well, the truth is for me it didn t feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. my parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ....
here in singapore, midnight in london and two a.m. in istanbul where authorities say they are close to identifying the man who killed 39 people in an attack on a new year party at a nightclub. a security officials have released this footage which they say shows the suspect filming himself on a mobile phone in the centre of istanbul. he is shown walking around what he had is thought to be tax and square. police have arrested 12 people looking to the suspect. meanwhile, funerals for some of the victims have been held as our correspondent reports. it is slowly sinking in. grief binding together a nation pulled apart by terror. they mourned 23 year old yunus gormek, killed in the attack on the reina nightclub. a student working there for new year s eve, who was simply in the wrong place. at his funeral, his colleague. she took refuge from the gunman in the bathroom. i was in the toilet. the electricity went out. and i was like, yes, ok, that s all. and i said my last goodby ....