But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a seven year old, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre, we didn t go to galleries, or. . . I was not exposed to the arts. But they found a local school around the corner, and we now can fully appreciate that little local school had some of the best teachers you could ever come across. And you had this very rapid rise through your teens. You performed at the opening ceremony of the sydney olympics, and then you started to win international ballet competitions. The first teachers i had unleashed this tiger within me. So, then it was when i was about 13 or 14, which again shows you just how incredible my first teachers were, that they felt they d taken me so far, and it was time to hand me on they introduced me to my teacher in sydney, h
Steven mcrae, welcome to hardtalk. We re here at the royal ballet and opera in london, which has been your professional home for many years now, and you re about to go back on stage as the mad hatter in alice s adventures in wonderland. Tell me first how this adventure began for you, the world of ballet. Because you grew up far away from here. Yes. So i grew up in the outskirts of sydney, australia. Probably the furthest you could possibly get from the royal opera house here in london. I grew up in a motorsport family. My father was a drag racer. My father was an incredibly clever man who would create any parts with his own bare hands that he couldn t afford to purchase or to import. But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a seven year old, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it. Bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre
stormy daniels. according to multiple sources, trump will turn himself in next tuesday, appearing in a new york courtroom for his arraignment. ahead of that the nypd is making major security preps. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform prepared for deployment. today we want to show you live pictures now of supporters who have gathered in mar-a-lago. let s get straight to paula reid now live in new york for the latest on the indictment. paula walk us through what s going to happen next. at this point. even former president trump s lawyers don t know exactly what he has been charged with. now that is standard operating procedure in a state court charges remain under seal until the arraignment , which as of right now is expected to happen on tuesday. and i m also told that trump s lawyers do not intend to try to push or even ask for the unsealing of that indictment any sooner. but on tuesday, they said he will fully cooperate. he will go through the standard p
street s worse day in more than two years. it s wednesday, september 14th. it is 9 a.m. here in london where queen elizabeth s coffin now rests inside buckingham palace. behind me before the next leg of her final journey begins today. in the hours ahead a procession will take her coffin from the palace to westminster hall. members of the royal family, including king charles, prince william and prince harry, will be walking in that procession. the queen will lie in state at westminster hall starting later today until her funeral on monday at westminster abbey. ahead of that, mourners are camping out in london waiting for their chance to see the queen s coffin and pay their respects. [ applause ] an outburst of emotion outside buckingham palace late tuesday as queen elizabeth arrived home for the last time. the crowd, some who waited in hours in the rain clapped and cheered as they gathered to pay their respects to brittain s longest serving monarch. the queen s coffin had
vinnitsya for us. give us the latest at this hour. reporter: this is across the street from the blast site. this streetcar, you can see all the windows are blown out. they re trying to figure out how they re going to move it, if it still runs at this stage and how they re going to get it out of here. i ll take you over here. this is called the house of officers. it is actually a concert venue, a theater. it s obviously from the soviet era, quite old. this building was completely gutted on the inside. we can actually walk past the lawn, and you can see inside, bits of it. they are still at least they were a few minutes ago still hosing down parts of it, some of the hottest spots. they re trying to dismantle parts of it. i want to take you over here for one second. people have started to lay flowers here, stuffed animals as well, and the reason why is because earlier in the day, there was a photo that was put out by the foreign minister and other officials showing a strol