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mike leigh, welcome to hardtalk. it's very nice to be here. it is great to have you here. we've all lived through difficult times thanks to the covid pandemic. in these of all times, do you buy into this notion that escapism is a key motivation that gets people to the cinema? well, people want to escape, but people also want to be stimulated. so, i think the force notion is that there is either escapist material or there's boring stuff that isn't escapist and therefore nobody wants to watch it. it's rubbish, basically. my experience over a long time is that people want to be stimulated. no film, no piece of entertainment is any use if it's not actually entertaining, as far as i'm concerned, and i make serious films that are also comic as well. imean... comedy is very much part of what it's all about. alfred hitchcock once said that a woman who spends all day washing and cleaning and ironing does not want to go to the movies and watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cleaning and ironing, and i flatly disagree with alfred hitchcock. my experience is that

mike leigh, that's a lovely way to end. thank you. hello. we have some pretty quiet weather to come across the uk in the next few days. but the end of the week could definitely offer us something rather more dramatic. for now though, it's about light winds and those winds coming in from the south—west or the west will bring some relatively mild air. this amber colour behind me showing air that's been pulled in quite a long way south across the atlantic, indicating quite a warm feel to tuesday across parts of england and wales. you may have noticed some colder air to the far north of the uk. temperatures will struggle to get the double figures across northern most scotland, with some squally showers here. elsewhere, we are looking i think at the low to mid—teens. there will be some rain to the day for northern england and wales. but we should see brighter skies north of the front for much of scotland and northern ireland, and to the south across southern and eastern england. and this front is set to stick around through wednesday and thur

mike leigh has to ask himself a question. is he prepared to bend a little bit? are you prepared to perhaps tailor what you do a little more to what the commercial people in the film business want? i think the answer to that question is it's less a matter of... no, i'm not prepared to do that because i think audiences for my work like what that is. and they want to see that. but they might like something that is different. yes, but here's the thing. i don't know how many of my films you've actually seen. i'm a geezer, so i've seen quite a few. you will know that they considerably. they're not all the same. they all have siblings they have sibling characteristics. but they do vary considerably. at one end of the spectrum, you have comedy like abigail's party and nuts in may. at the other end, you've got films like naked. even that film, which is being rereleased commercially, in the cinemas by bfi, has got humour in it. it's about lots of things. so, no, in terms of what you're really asking in terms of what i want to make... either that or bend a little bit on wh

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these are mug shots of mike leigh and john lee who are both suspected to be behind the operations. >> police say the 2 were involved in dealing drugs, illegal gambling and buying and selling stolen property and illegal indoor marijuana grow was also found on the premises. here's a look at what police seized at one location. police found 33 pounds of marijuana 25 pounds of thc products. 2 handguns and a loaded high capacity rifle magazine at another location authority sees 300 pounds of marijuana 2 guns, ammunition and $30,000 in cash year-old children is getting so popular in several bay area counties. it. >> anxious parents are grabbing up all the available appointments in one county in almost 15 minutes. thousands of appointments were grabbed kron four's terisa with more on the rush to get this new eligible age group, a shot in the arm. >> will it the clinic that we have planned for this weekend filled in. 10 minutes or maybe a little bit, maybe 5th team in its lady. hendrick spokesperson for marine county on what happened when they opened up appointments thursday afternoon for 5 to

leigh and john lee both suspected to be behind the operations. police say the 2 hosted drug dealings, illegal gambling and the buying and selling of stolen property and a legal indoor marijuana grow was also found on the premise. so here's a look at what police seized at one location. police say they found 33 pounds of marijuana. 25 pounds of thc products. 2 handguns. and a loaded high capacity rifle magazine and then another location. authorities say they seized 300 pounds of marijuana to firearms, ammo and $30,000 in cash. both the suspects have already been booked now into the santa clara county jail. still ahead, we brought you the story yesterday right here during kron 4 news at 3 o'clock you are seeing all this trash outside of his home. >> in southern california. will the cleanup began today. they found so much stuff there. they're going to check in now on how the cleanup process is going at this porter house. -hi mommy! -hi honey! oh i missed you! you just want to video call the kids. ok. hush little baby... don't say a word... but if slo

i want to bring in mike memoli live in detroit ahead of the president. and leigh ann caldwell joins me from capitol hill where democrats are still grappling with the other huge part of the president's agenda. take us through what we're expecting to hear from president biden in motor city today. >> reporter: well, craig, when president biden was candidate joe biden, one of the first policy proposals he put out was about installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations across the country. he argued at the time this was both a climate policy by helping to reduce fossil fuel emissions but also a jab creator. when biden was the vice president he worked closely with auto manufacturers, with the city of detroit to help revive, get the auto industry off its feet. he's coming here on a big day for gm. as you mentioned, to tout the fact that this infrastructure will help, indeed, not get to the 500,000, but a good stride in that direction. and it's going to be a part of what gm is proposing today to help transition their fleet to all electric vehicles by 2035

mike, i'll start with you. we've seen the top line numbers on the bill. my question is how will the white house be selling it and when will the american people start to see it and feel it in action? >> well, we're going to see the president hitting the road later this week. he's heading a short trip to baltimore to the port of baltimore to talk about the impact this is going to be having for americans and i think a preview of that remark on wednesday, we got over the weekend when he talked about supply chains. part of what the white house has been dealing with politically is the drag of inflation and the supply chain challenge. this infrastructure is a remedy to the comply chain issue. but the bigger sales job, and you mentioned we're going to see pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary shortly at the briefing. it's going to be much more from the rest of the cabinet, than the president himself. i just learned from a white house official sort of how they're envisioning this sales pitch, and that's going to include pete buttigieg hitting the roads, tal