at the start of the next working day. the uk prime minister is in california to discuss defence and the potential threat from china with leaders of the us and australia. and hopes of a deal between gary lineker and the bbc in a row over impartiality which disrupted sports programmes over the weekend. hello and welcome to the programme. very good to have your company. some of hollywood s biggest stars are at the 95th oscars ceremony in los angeles. it s already been a good day for the hotly tipped everything everywhere all at once at the ceremony in hollywood. its cast members jamie lee curtis won best supporting actress and ke huy quan won best supporting actor. amongst the latest winners is all quiet on the western front which won for best international film. let s cross live to hollywood and our north america correspondent, peter bowes whose at an oscars watch party at the legendary roosevelt hotel. with these awards we have had, we are still looking forward to the best pic
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. the hollywood actors union has called off its strike, which has caused major disruption to film and tv productions. to film and tv productions. the union says it s reached a tentative agreement with studios. welcome back. president biden has warned the united states will target any groups linked to iran s revolutionary guard corps after a strike on an arms depot in eastern syria wednesday which had been linked to earlier attacks on us bases. the pentagon says there have been a0 such attacks since the war in gaza began. what s more, we have video from the iran backed houthi forces in yemen. they claim to be of an american m09 drone being shot out of the sky. it further underlines the tensions in the wider region, where iran s proxies are threatening to expand the conflict. this is whatjohn kirby, the spokesman for the us s national security council, had to say in an interview with the bbc. we believe that th
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enthusiastic message of a nation ready to fall in love with michael bloomberg and convince people to vote for him, right? mark: yeah, no, i hate it when you get campaign calls, but you sort of always assume it is a genuine volunteer, and when it s not, you kind of assume they ve paid, you know, out of work actors or somebody to do it. the idea that it is a guy he s locked up in jail and has a choice between sewing mail bags or hammering license plates or making telephone calls for mike bloomberg, it doesn t seem like a good comment on the health of his campaign. no. i mean, may be, in some ways, it s somewhat symbolically fitting for bloomberg.t i mean, this is someone he s not an ideological, far left person. i guess he is a sort of centrist. but centrism can be authoritarian in and of itself. this is a man who wanted to