so why must you always concentrate on colour, or religion, or this? there are other ways of connecting men. i tell you this. when i left this country in 1948, i left this country with one reason only, one reason. i might have gone to hong kong, i might have gone to timbuktu. i ended up on the streets of paris. there was a theory that nothing worse could happen to me there that had already happened to me here. you talk about making it as a writer about yourself. you have to be able then to turn all the intent with which you live, because once you turn on your back on this society, you may die. you can see it seems really, really urgent, really engaging, and it s a terrific watch. it s brilliantly constructed. the montage work is fantastic. the way in which they mix news footage and television and films. there is a very coherent argument, which is about the sort of nature of america, which seems every bit as pertinent now as it did when this was sort of first envisaged. the thi
the westminster terror attack last month, has died. the violent husband who was spared custody is now sent to jail after his claims to be a professional cricketer are proved untrue. and could the yorkshireman who won last year s masters be about to crash out of this year s competition? and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: two defeats on day one in france mean great britain is on the verge of going out of the davis cup in the quarterfinals. good evening. russia, an ally of syria, has condemned a missile strike authorised by president trump on a syrian government target. 59 tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from us warships in the mediterranean at the shayrat airbase. it was from there, according to mr trump, that this week s deadly chemical weapons attack in northern syria was launched. in a moment, we ll get the latest on russia s response and how the strike could affect the long war in syria. but first, here s our north america editorjon sopel. and a warning, his re
after labour did not back it. thanks to ed miliband. supposedly that put america off doing their own strikes in response to this. some unusual people are supporting trump and what he has done because he has reinforced a red line which they say 0bama and cameron and miller band and everyone, it should have done. it has taken bizarrely and america first, isolationist, pro russian american president perceived to be pro russian to actually go out and do it. the daily mirror takes it one step further, suggesting trump is 110w step further, suggesting trump is now one step from war. warning that the world is in fear. arguably bevan, there are many proxy wars going on already, notjust in syria but in iran. there are. but in iraq. very dramatic language. trump himself has been very categorical in his comments on what this represented as an atrocity. the idea that we are one step behind war, it seems that a russian war strip in the black sea has been diverted to the black sea has
has condemned a missile strike authorised by president trump on a syrian government target. 59 tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from us warships in the mediterranean at the shayrat air base. it was from there, according to mr trump, that this week s deadly chemical weapons attack in northern syria was launched. in a moment, we ll get the latest on russia s response and how the strike could affect the long war in syria. but first, here s our north america editorjon sopel and a warning, his report does contain some distressing images. it was after dark on the east coast of america and before the sun had risen in the middle east, when the commander in chief gave the order to strike. from two us warships in the eastern mediterranean, a volley of cruise missiles was fired, targeting a single military airbase outside homs that had been used, say the americans, by the syrian air force to launch the deadly chemical weapons attack on idlib earlier in the week. it was in this vita
it s been another busy one. have a good weekend. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m lizzie greenwood hughes. the headlines tonight: willetts‘s woes, as the reigning masters champion looks set to miss the cut. meanwhile, sergio garcia is the clubhouse leader in augusta, on four under par. rodgers commits his future to celtic, signing a four year deal as manager of the scottish champions. and great britain are one defeat away from going out of the davis cup in the quarter finals. so a busy day of sport. let s start with golf, and the masters is well into its second day in augusta. and the course is really testing even the very best, including england s reigning champion, danny willett, who is on the verge of missing the cut, after a horror story eight on the first hole. spain s ryder cup stalwart sergio garcia has been the day s big winner. he is in the clubhouse on four under par, joint leader so far after a second round of 69, in a three way tie for the lead with american�