now on bbc news mel brooks talks to alan yentob about his life. i know the word can be overused but mel brooks is a legend. a movie legend, a musical legend, and a comedy legend. oscars, emmys, baftas, tonys, grammys, he s won them all many times over. # springtime for hitler and germany deutschland is happy and gay we re marching to a faster pace look out, here comes the master race. # mel brooks was fearless, he broke every rule, but he kept to the ones for lockdown, even telling his son max to go away. i m going, i m going. love you. he s been locked in writing his autobiography, and after some persuasion, let me in to talk about it. alan, you flew on an aeroplane all the way from london. idid. ..to see me here in southern california. yeah, and this pandemic, which, when max introduced you, 16 million people were watching that. so you are a bit of a hero. well. also, max, what are you going to do? you can t go to your lunches, you can t go to your office, you can t do
after being stabbed in separate incidents in london. 30 teenagers have been killed in the capital this year the highest figure since 2008. you can carry knives in london. this is what happens when knives are carried. cannot. we all want to tackle knife crime. relieved and grateful the victims of ghislaine maxwell have been speaking after she was convicted of grooming girls to be abused byjeffery epstein her family say they can t accept the verdict. joe biden has again told president vladimir putin that the us and its allies will respond decisively if russia does not de escalate tensions on his country s border with ukraine. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. new figures show staff absences caused by covid at nhs acute trusts in england rose by more than 40% in the week to boxing day. hospitals in northampton, sheffield and rotherham have temporarily suspended visiting due to the high number of 0micron cases. an average of more than 25,000 health workers were off
Some a subtle change for sunday. some longer spells of rain at times, but the wind direction shift slightly coming in from the west. we ll still be mild, very mild, butjust not quite as mild as it is right now with temperatures of nine to m degrees. a bigger change coming later in the week, it will stay unsettled, low pressure drifting across the uk as we go to monday and then as that shifts its way eastwards, it will open the door to cold northerly winds, that is going to feel quite different i think as we go into tuesday and wednesday, single digit temperatures for all of us are a time when we should be seeing this this time of the year and some wintry showers in the north as we head through the rest of the week. more weather later and that is all for now.
Fast-moving lava flow approaching the highway. reporter: officials tried to predict when the lava would pass this major escape route for residents. kilauea s fury is a three-pronged pitchfork, assaulting the big island s air, land and sea. scott, how close were you able to get to the lava as it was going into the ocean? reporter: well, anderson we actually had a special permit that allowed us to get fairly close, a hundred or so yards offshore but you wouldn t want to get that close because the swells in that area are quite big, not to mention the wind directions can shift in an instant and with that in the air it can be potentially dangerous. we watched the wind direction shift from a northeasterly directions to almost a straight south wind when we were there in just a matter of moments. what s amazing to see out there is just how quickly in
Getting into that eye. let s see how wide the eye is. i haven t done this in a while. because the eye is going to go over the top of sarasota and tampa, too. last measurement, and the eye itself is now about 17, about 18 miles wide, brian. roughly half what it was at this time at one point it was about 30, yes. control room, if you can still get that periscope picture from marco island, there it is. it s grainy. this is through a window, what we can assume is hurricane glass. we ve already even in this rudimentary grainy picture we ve seen a wind direction shift, but if there s to be an eye and you can be convinced that s brightening sky, it will be quite obvious when it comes. perhaps not all regions of marco island will see it. perhaps this is more inland.