and the indian adaptation of the hollywood classic forrest gump is released next week. we hear from the bollywood superstar aamir khan. it kind of feels like it is a dream now because it has been such a long journey and we have come to the end and it feels a bit unreal. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 9:00am in tokyo where japan is demanding an immediate end to china s military exercises around taiwan, after five chinese missiles landed injapan s exclusive economic zone. the us national security spokesman, john kirby said beijing had no reason to act aggressively. beijng, you ll remember, is conducting live firing exercises in the sea around taiwan for the next several days, in response to a recent visit there by the senior us politician, nancy pelosi. from taiwan, rupert wingfield hayes reports. it began with this barrage of rockets streaking into the sky from the southeast coast of china. it s th
greg doran. why do we continue to make much ado about william shakespeare? gregory doran, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. nice to be here. well, it s a real pleasure to be on your stage here at the royal shakespeare company. you first set foot on this stage 35 years ago. idid. in fact, this month, it s 50 years since i saw my first show at the rsc, which was eileen atkins in as you like it. and my mum had packed us all into the back of her beige mini and we had come down from preston, and i saw the show and i was just completely blown away. and apparently i said to my mum on the way back, that s what i want to do when i grow up. so i must have grown up. and you are one of those people who achieved your ambition, your dream, because for the last ten years, you ve been artistic director here. that s right. 35 years in total with the rsc, the royal shakespeare company. it s coming to an end. how big a wrench is it going to be? oh, it s going to be. well, i hope not to sever my
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines: japan and the us condemn china s military exercises in the waters around taiwan and call for an immediate halt. this and call for an immediate halt. afternoon china fire missiles this afternoon china fired missiles from the coast of china across the taiwan strait and they fell into waters and the exclusion just here of the north taiwan coast. the primary objective is obviously intimidation. the conspiracy theorist alexjones is ordered to pay more than $4 million in damages afterfalsely claiming the sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. us basketball star brittney griner gets a nine year sentence on drug charges in russia president biden denounces it as unacceptable.