Hello from the rocky mountains in colorado. I m tom brook. Welcome to our talking movies award season lookahead. We have travelled to the key film festivals of recent days, where this year s oscars race have been taking shape. It is a risky film, and for them to validate it means so much to me. From the venice film festival, we hearfrom maggie gyllenhaal, who took home the prize for her screenplay for her directorial debut. And the new zealand director jane campion win in venice for her psychological study and western, the power of the dog. It showed off the talents of its star benedict cumberbatch. I was terrified of meeting jane. You know. She was coming with all the respect i have for her iconic work. And we report from the telluride and toronto film festivals, where an animated documentary, flee, chronicling the plight of an afghan refugee from kabul from 25 years ago was a very solid hit. What this story does is it shows what it can do to human beings to be on the run, to flee, an
See some gales by the end of the week when it will start to feel cooler for a time. Week when it will start to feel coolerfor a time. Change on wednesday night into thursday, strengthening jet stream in the north atlantic between us and iceland and that it is going to develop an area of low pressure which will bring to a drop in temperature. Looks like autumn is on its way. Some of you may feel like that because across eastern counties we have heavy rain but flashes of lightning especially across east anglia. West of that, cloud down food to the mass west midlands that may produce some rain. Some showers in scotland but most having a dry and to the day and temperatures in the high teens. This evening and overnight, the weather front stays in place over the east, turning lighter and cloud into western scotland and northern ireland. In between, clear skies, some mist and fog and a bit colder, temperatures in single figures for many rural parts. In the south east, temperatures in the teen
Dozens of universities have set up pop up clinics and walk in centres for students to receive covid vaccines, as the new academic year begins. Students who are not yet vaccinated, are being urged to getjabs during freshers week. Megan paterson, has the details. Have you registered with a gp? a new addition to the usual freshers week festivities at oxford brookes university. 0. 3. Pop up clinics and grab a jab drop ins allaimed at encouraging as many students as possible to get vaccinated, amid some concern about covid spread in young people. We are aware just before the summer there was quite a high increase in covid infection rates amongst the 18 24 year olds, so we re really keen to try and sort of capture them just as they re coming back to university, to make sure in the environment they live in maybe in shared houses that we minimize the spread and the transmission of covid as much as possible. Obviously, we want people to really enjoy their university terms, and so it s to
The welsh government has announced tighter covid rules for people attending mass events. You ll need proof of vaccinations, or a negative covid test. The new controls come into force next month for venues like clubs and at sporting events. Here s our wales correspondent, hywel griffith. Thou shalt not pass, unless you ve got one of these not, the welsh government insists, a vaccine passport, but proof of either being jabbed or a negative lateral flow test. Mandatory covid passes haven t been welcomed by the hospitality industry. At this nightclub, they say they ll comply if it means avoiding another lockdown. It s not ideal, but these are not ideal times. People come to the club. We already check their id, we search everyone. Having them show a covid pass, it s not a big problem. You will go with it just to stay open? yes. Football and rugby stadiums will check for passes, too, but the whole system depends on people taking tests and reporting their own results. The first minister war
We could see some localised flooding, as this will produce quite a lot of rainfall within a short space of time for some of us tomorrow. West is best as far as those sunny spells are concerned with top temperatures reaching 20 or 21 celsius. Brightening up as we head to the start of this coming week. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. Worries over the soaring price of gas. The british government s holding urgent talks with energy industry bosses. It s one of those hidden things that has immense repercussions right the way through the sector and i really do think this is a crisis. France is recalling its ambassadors to australia and the united states, in protest over a security deal which also includes the uk. Holiday firms say they expect a surge in bookings after travel restrictions in england are relaxed. This is what we ve been waiting for a long time. It takes away all the confusion and that has been one of our biggest barriers and one of the biggest reasons why people haven t