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the european union launches fresh legal action against the uk for failing to comply with the post brexit northern ireland protocol. 15 year old sebastian kalinowski, who died after months of torture at the hands of his mother and her partner they ve been found guilty of his murder. hello, welcome to bbc news. in the past few minutes, a jury in washington, dc has found steve bannon donald trump s former presidential adviser guilty of contempt of congress. he faced criminal charges after defying a legal summons to testify about last year s riot by supporters of the former president at the capitol building. mr bannon, who s 68, could face up to two years in prison. let s speak to our correspondent barbara plett usher, let s speak to michael goldfarb, who s a journalist and foreign correspondent for pbs radio, in the united states. thank you for staying with us on bbc news. what do you make of the judgment being made here with steve bannon? it judgment being made here with ....
a book is this popular, it s always very difficult doing an adaptation. yes. there were moments in this in which i could almost hear the book behind it, thinking, ok, i can sort of see what the text would have been. the performances are good. i mean, it s a very good cast, it s very well done. the production design is really beautiful. but it all feels very safe. it deals with some dark subject matter, but it feels like a very polite treatment of that subject matter. and i kept thinking, somewhere in here, there is an earthier, grittier version of this story, but it s kind of got a touch of the nick sparks about it. itjust felt oddly bland. that s not to say it s bad, and it may well be that if you have read the book, you get more out of it. but i did think, ok, it s kind of. like i said, despite that swampy setting, it had a very lukewarm feeling and i didn t get emotionally involved in the way that i had expected to, so. because reese witherspoon options some in ....
hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. and taking us through this week s releases is, as you see, mark kermode. hi, mark. hi. what have you been watching? well, as always, a very mixed bag. we have where the crawdads sing, which is an adaptation of a very popular novel. we have she will, which is the feature debut from charlotte colbert. and kurt vonnegut: unstuck in time, a documentary about the american writer. good old mixture there, yes. yes. so, where the crawdads sing, which is an adaptation of the deep south novel which became a publishing sensation millions and millions of copies sold. this is adapted by lucy alibar, who is best known for beasts of the southern wild. one of the producers is reese witherspoon, so very, very good pedigree. yes. daisy edgar jones is kya, who is called the marsh girl . she grew up amidst the marshes of the deep south, fending for herself, understanding nature. at the beginning of the film, we see her being ....
so on the one hand, you ve got the court case, then you have the flashbacks to her life, her childhood abusive father, abandoned by her mother relationship with two boys, both of whom let her down. two young men, i should say. the book was a huge hit. the film s credentials are impeccable. and yet, and i hate to say this, it all felt very lukewarm. now, i haven t read the book, so i don t know how somebody who had read the book would feel about it. i know that whenever a book is this popular, it s always very difficult doing an adaptation. yes. there were moments in this in which i could almost hear the book behind it, thinking, ok, i can sort of see what the text would have been. the performances are good. i mean, it s a very good cast, it s very well done. the production design is really beautiful. but it all feels very safe. it deals with some dark subject matter, but it feels like a very polite treatment of that subject matter. and i kept thinking, somewhere in ....
a man who killed his wife in an act of love is calling for a change in the law to allow assisted dying. i don t want all people to go through what we have had to do. changing the law is the only way that that can stop things like we had to do. good morning. another medal for great britain at the world athletics championships as matt hudson smith won bronze in the 400 metres with a gutsy run in oregon. an emotional moment after three years of struggles with injuries and mental health issues. the scourge of the seaside lunch: we re hearing all about the latest tactics to stop seagulls stealing your chips. warming up across the south east of the uk this weekend but nothing like the uk this weekend but nothing like the searing heat we had earlier in the searing heat we had earlier in the week. some rain at times, brisk winds as well. more details from me throughout the morning. goad throughout the morning. good morninu. it s saturdayjuly 23. our top story: holidaymakers leaving ....