heavy, frequent, with some thunderstorms as well. more details on bbc breakfast. it s saturday 26 august. our main story: pressure is growing for the president of the spanish football federation, luis rubiales, to resign after he kissed spanish player, jenni hermoso, on the lips following the team s women s world cup final win over england. the lionesses have called the incident unacceptable and backed spanish footballers who are refusing to play for the national team until rubiales stands down. hermoso says she did not consent to the kiss. our reporter zoe conway has more. a moment of victory, notjust for the women of this team but for women everywhere. that was the hope. but now the spanish players are refusing to play again for their country until the football official, luis rubiales, is gone. his forceful kiss ofjenni hermoso and the moment he grabbed his crotch while in the presence of spanish royalty, has caused outrage. and notjust in spain. the lionesses may have be
mutiny and sending a very clear signal to his military and to his adversaries around the globe as well, that he s still a force to be reckoned with. john: general, on that point, we remember that after that mutiny, short lived as it was, there was a move by the russian military to absorb a lot of wagner mercenaries into regular russian forces. i don t know exactly how much or what percentage of the wagner mercenaries went in, but i do know that prigozhin was actively recruiting more. could they potentially merge wagner into the russian military and by doing that, bolster their forces in ukraine in a way that maybe they couldn t if prigozhin was still in charge? yeah, i think that s right, what they are going to do, and not so much the troops. their troops has been mauled badly by the ukrainians and reinforcing with people coming out of jails. the key is leadership of wagner, and they are pretty good. battle hardened, they fought all over the globe. gives them the capabili
government shutdown overnight, but there could be the start of even bigger problems for speaker mike johnson and his republican majority. plus, the former giuliani associate who blew a russia-sized hole into republicans impeachment dreams. we ll talk about his testimony on capitol hill. later, michael cohen is with us as his former boss tries to scrape together $454 million all before monday. we ve got a lot to talk about. welcome to the weekend. congress managed to avoid a shutdown at about 2:00 a.m. eastern time, passing a bill that funds the government through the end of september. republicans left for a two-week recess without delivering crucial aid to ukraine and israel, as well as taiwan. overnight, russian authorities detained 11 people following a terror attack at a concert venue just outside moscow. the russian government says at least 115 people are dead after several gunmen opened fire on the crowd. there were fears moscow would blame ukraine for the att
hello from the malibu barbie cafe in new york city. i m tom brook, and welcome to talking movies. in today s programme we review blockbuster season. hi barbie. we look at whyy barbie so thoroughly won over over audiences. barbie. icon, timeless icon. i actually wanted to watch today but they sold out. you are the man who gave them i the power to destroy themselves. the season s other big hit, 0ppenheimer, brought great acclaim to its director, christopher nolan. we will hearfrom him. when i looked at 0ppenheimer s story, it was the most dramatic story i have ever encountered. but 0ppenheimer and barbie were not met withjoy everywhere. we look at the resistance to each in different parts of the world. translation: men or boys might make feminine gestures, - they might want to put on nail polish, wear earings or do other gestures inspired by barbie. everyone has a barbie story, and the stories are about us. we revisit a classic documentary exploring the origins of barbie and th
cultural life, the radio four podcast, she reveals her formative influences and experiences, and how her passion for playing was there from the start. i knew very young there was no question i wanted to play the violin. there was no question that that was what i must do and had to do and wanted to do. welcome. you were born and brought up in north ayrshire. what are your earliest musical memories at home? what memories do you have of music being played at home? the bee gees and abba. later on, good dose of shania twain. that was all my dad s taste. my mum definitely had a kenny g record. um. she laughs saxophone? they ll kill me for saying all of this quite like this, but it s the truth! both of your parents were born in italy, weren t they ? yes. was it an italian household culturally growing up? it s a good question. i would say both parents assimilated very concretely and quite deliberately with scottishness and scottish culture, but they also came over very young. my mum