Miller center here at the university of virginia, who president says is broad, long term in perspective, balanced, and of course expressed in words, the written word. The other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant. So please breeds path oliphant. I applause even more so by the work of them path oliphant, which you see displayed on the screen. The culture he represents is not broad, it had a specific daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week. In the denver post for several years. Washington star for several years. Along the way, pat oliphant became the first 21st cartoonist to be featured in newspapers all across the country, he was indicated in newspapers for the country. Far from being balanced, they were opinionated. That was part of their virtue. Obviously, not so much inwards, though there are words, especially in pictures, and the work of pot o
Katie gornall reports from tokyo. Tokyois tokyo is a sprawling, enchanting city. Busy yet serene, its a place where the modern nestles alongside the traditional. Its a new frontier for a sport hoping to make a good impression. Excitement is building. 15,000 people turned upjust impression. Excitement is building. 15,000 people turned up just to watch wales train in southern japan in the country plasma commission of a sport believes this tournament could leave a lasting legacy. Transmack this, the first time a world cup is coming to a country which has no tradition in rugby. Transmack. It was a challenge for us to make this happen. Brightness japan, we were really excited to have this tournament so im hoping the right knee becomes part of our culture. Thanks for us. But that to happen, more people will expect children need to pick up a rugby ball. These High School Boys are in the minority and hope the world cup will change that. Since we japanese dont know much about rug, im hoping tha
A deal is possible. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. A day of Global Climate demonstrations has begun, with millions of people expected to skip school or work to join in. Crowds are already out on the streets in australia demanding action on Climate Change ahead of next weeks un summit. As the day progresses, protests are expected to spread from the asia pacific, through europe and africa, to the americas. You can see these pictures starting to come in from sydney, and we are as we said expecting to see this whole wave of Climate Change protests to ripple across the globe. Everyone united on many of these have risen from children over the last few months, very much a cause taken up by younger people. You can see they are clearly quite active there. When we can clearly quite active there. When we ca n cfoss clearly
Extremely important but lets see we are a big hope on the event on monday about the Climate Summit that is going to happen here in new york present something are always better than not to come in event and try to recreate. Commitment on the action that must be taken by the government but the 1st and the priority is about the the mission that this is this is the top priority the 1st of all. And still ahead. For the rugby world cup. Thank you japans rugby captain Michael Leach says his team is ready to inspire the nation the country is hosting the world cup for the very 1st target more than a hof a 1000000 fans are heading to japan for the 6 week event the hardest by russia in the toll on friday i do richardson reports. Organizers hope this world cup will result in 1000000 new players taking up rugby in asia as the game aims to establish more than just a loose foothold outside its traditional heartlands. Japan of every edition of the world cup but never before has the games Biggest Inter
With george ford at fly half. It isa it is a pretty chilly start to your friday. Mist and fog around, too. But lots of sunshine to come. I will have the details on breakfast. Its friday the 20th of september. Our top story the future of thomas cook is hanging in the balance this morning, as it scrambles to raise £200 Million Pounds to secure an Emergency Rescue deal. Britains oldest package holiday firm must secure the funds before a crucial meeting next friday. Ninas here to explain what this could mean for its customers and staff. Lots of people concerned about their jobs. And millions of holidays. It has been around since the 1840s. Hundreds of high street branches. May, they revealed £1. 5 billion of losses over the past six months and warned that they were tough times ahead. Lots of debt. They blamed lots of reasons. One of them brexit uncertainty. People making fewer bookings. Also the heatwave meant we we re bookings. Also the heatwave meant we were spending less on holidays a