:00:00. > :00:07.David Bowie - rock star, cultural icon and actor -
:00:08. > :00:23.From his breakthrough album in the 1970s -
:00:24. > :00:36.Decade after decade he re-shaped his music and re-invented himself.
:00:37. > :00:39.I got besotted with the idea of creating character after character.
:00:40. > :00:43.I just had to accept I was a person with a very short attention span.
:00:44. > :00:50.From the famous to the fans, they all celebrate a rare talent -
:00:51. > :01:16.Ground control to Major Tom. Great British icon and a gentleman and a
:01:17. > :01:19.legend. I never thought this day was going to come.
:01:20. > :01:26.David Bowie released his last album just days ago with the lyrics
:01:27. > :01:29.Aid begins to arrive in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya
:01:30. > :01:35.while parts of northern England were under water.
:01:36. > :01:45.On Reporting Scotland, and Argyle man is jailed for five years in
:01:46. > :01:55.India on weapons charges. His family said it is a miscarriage of justice.
:01:56. > :01:56.And a suspected case of bird flu is found in Fife but experts say the
:01:57. > :02:00.risk to the public is minimal. Good evening and welcome
:02:01. > :02:02.to the BBC News at Six. Tributes have been pouring in all
:02:03. > :02:06.day following the announcement that David Bowie has died in New York
:02:07. > :02:10.after being ill with cancer. In a career spanning six decades
:02:11. > :02:15.Bowie transcended music, becoming a cultural icon whose
:02:16. > :02:18.influence was felt in the worlds of fashion, art and even
:02:19. > :02:22.Cold War politics. While other singers had
:02:23. > :02:25.their trademark sound, Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz looks
:02:26. > :02:41.back at the man and his music. Here is a special man, with screwed
:02:42. > :02:47.up our eyes and screwed down hairdo. It's David Bowie, it's 1972 and this
:02:48. > :02:54.is his game changing altar ego. I'm only using rock and roll as a
:02:55. > :03:06.medium. I don't think it had been voiced before then. I wanted to be
:03:07. > :03:10.the instigator of new ideas, I wanted to turn things on to new
:03:11. > :03:13.ideas and perspectives, wanted to be Born David Jones and brought up in
:03:14. > :03:25.suburban south London, he restyled himself as David Bowie and in
:03:26. > :03:28.1969, presented his strange world of alienation and ambiguity, misfits.
:03:29. > :03:38.The older generation were bemused, the
:03:39. > :03:45.rockers dismissive. But teenagers in
:03:46. > :03:48.bedrooms from Devon to Dundee were transfixed, last here was somebody
:03:49. > :04:00.who understood them. He would try
:04:01. > :04:08.things. People laughed about his crossdressing, but he did it
:04:09. > :04:10.because he wanted to know was like. I have so much admiration
:04:11. > :04:15.for him. He had that clever thing of creating the persona on stage which
:04:16. > :04:18.was fantastic. When he had enough of that person, he could bring
:04:19. > :04:26.another one on board. He made plain his artistic
:04:27. > :04:28.modus operandi with Just going to have
:04:29. > :04:39.to be a different man. It is looking at an actor's films
:04:40. > :04:42.and taking clippings and saying That is different
:04:43. > :04:45.to most rock stars. I am not a rock star,
:04:46. > :04:50.I am not in rock and roll. The singer-songwriter
:04:51. > :04:52.and performance artist became transfixed by the idea
:04:53. > :04:55.of creating character after character in an act
:04:56. > :05:00.of pop post-modernism. Ziggy Stardust became
:05:01. > :05:07.the Thin White Duke. transatlantic success for this
:05:08. > :05:18.bizarre British export. I get the weirdest reactions
:05:19. > :05:21.from people who know you are going to be on,
:05:22. > :05:24.some of them would be scared to talk to you, some people
:05:25. > :05:26.would say that you would Nothing that you have seen or heard
:05:27. > :05:49.from David Bowie will prepare you for the dramatic
:05:50. > :05:50.performance in The David Bowie was an actor,
:05:51. > :05:56.he started out as a mime artist followed by his various
:05:57. > :06:00.stage personas and in 1976 he took a starring role in
:06:01. > :06:02.this arthouse film. His next stop was Germany,
:06:03. > :06:04.he moved to Berlin where he made a trip to you critically
:06:05. > :06:06.acclaimed albums with # We could be heroes
:06:07. > :06:21.just for one day... His
:06:22. > :06:32.observation of this shifting social behaviours meant was often
:06:33. > :06:34.at the forefront of change from raising gender
:06:35. > :06:36.issues to embracing - Let's Dance was a massive
:06:37. > :06:50.international and commercial success Artistically and aesthetically
:06:51. > :06:56.it was probably my Over the past decade he retreated
:06:57. > :07:04.from public life but continued to make records and pursued
:07:05. > :07:10.creative collaborations. He released his final
:07:11. > :07:23.album, Black Star True to form, it was
:07:24. > :07:24.innovative and in anticipating his own
:07:25. > :07:36.death, visionary. David Bowie was born in Brixton,
:07:37. > :07:39.south London and today fans have been leaving flowers and lighting
:07:40. > :07:41.candles next to a mural Whether it's New York,
:07:42. > :07:46.where Bowie lived or Berlin, where he wrote some of his most
:07:47. > :07:49.famous tracks, people have been talking about how he
:07:50. > :07:51.influenced their lives. Our Arts Correspondent David Sillito
:07:52. > :08:49.has been listening to reaction that. He was a real person. A
:08:50. > :08:54.creator. Brixton, his birthplace, Berlin, his creative escape. And
:08:55. > :09:04.this, the place made famous by the legendary album cover. This is the
:09:05. > :09:13.spot. You can still see the gaslamp. For most of us, this is as close as
:09:14. > :09:21.you ever got to David Barry. For his fans, he was like an alien who had
:09:22. > :09:27.arrived in strange clothes -- David Bowie. What he did was give people
:09:28. > :09:34.permission to live their lives differently. He probably saved my
:09:35. > :09:39.life, through his lyrics and songs differently. He probably saved my
:09:40. > :09:47.and attitude. When I was a troubled teenager. I actually appear on this
:09:48. > :09:56.record. David Bowie has been part of my life since I first met him in
:09:57. > :10:07.1967 so it feels like a major pet prop has been knocked away. Among
:10:08. > :10:10.the tributes... Madonna, Sir Paul McCartney and the man who helped
:10:11. > :10:16.create some of his greatest albums, Brian Eno. He said I received an
:10:17. > :10:22.e-mail seven days ago, it ended, thank you for our good times, Brian.
:10:23. > :10:28.They will never rot. I realise now he was saying goodbye.
:10:29. > :10:29.David Bowie stretched musical boundaries -
:10:30. > :10:34.His willingness to challenge convention influenced what people
:10:35. > :10:40.Some have said he changed the face of modern Britain.
:10:41. > :10:43.Our Home Editor Mark Easton looks at the huge influence David Bowie
:10:44. > :10:56.David Bowie provided a changing soundtrack to the formative years
:10:57. > :11:02.But across the decades he was also an advocate for imagination,
:11:03. > :11:13.A 17-year-old David Jones has just founded the Society
:11:14. > :11:15.for the prevention of cruelty to long-haired men.
:11:16. > :11:18.In 1964 the boy from south London was interviewed by the BBC,
:11:19. > :11:23.For the last two years we've had comments like,
:11:24. > :11:33.I think it just has to stop now. thrown at us.
:11:34. > :11:40.Britain has become far more tolerant of difference.
:11:41. > :11:48.The cultural influence of David Bowie provided the social fuel for
:11:49. > :11:54.that revolution. I have found I collect, I am a collector. I collect
:11:55. > :11:58.personalities. His artistry and energy prodded Britain towards the
:11:59. > :12:04.global creative powerhouse it has become. He was fearless, courageous,
:12:05. > :12:09.innovative, he kept on changing, and he's had a massive impact on the way
:12:10. > :12:15.this country is seen by the world as the most creative nation on earth. A
:12:16. > :12:20.retrospective put together by the V documented his influence into
:12:21. > :12:24.every corner of creative space, fashion, digital technology, design,
:12:25. > :12:29.sexuality. He declared he was gay and always have been and he was
:12:30. > :12:34.pushing a pram and had a wife. He was very provocative, he played with
:12:35. > :12:39.the media. In presenting that vision, being super cool, looking
:12:40. > :12:46.gorgeous, he changed the minds of millions. We are asking you to cut
:12:47. > :12:51.down to the absolute minimum the use of electricity for heating and for
:12:52. > :13:00.other purposes in your homes. In grey, troubled Britain, David Bowie
:13:01. > :13:08.was a colourful antidote. Glam rock star man cultural conformity. He
:13:09. > :13:15.gave space to strangeness and made it cool. If he defined what it meant
:13:16. > :13:19.to be young and smart, for many British Abie Boomers he was also a
:13:20. > :13:28.companion when it came to getting older. He never lost his sense of
:13:29. > :13:34.urgency and vitality and creativity right up to his death. Some will
:13:35. > :13:39.wonder what the fuss is about, he was not to everyone's taste. But
:13:40. > :13:45.when the British team stepped into the Olympic Stadium it was David
:13:46. > :13:49.Bowie who provided the anthem. He is a hero to many. A man who changed
:13:50. > :13:56.the way the world sees Britain and Britain sees itself.
:13:57. > :13:58.Well, our Arts Editor Will Gompertz is here, he was much more
:13:59. > :14:10.He was a great artist. Plain and simple. Like any true artist, what
:14:11. > :14:13.he was able to do was reflect the world back to us, in a way that not
:14:14. > :14:22.only helped us make sense of it but opened it up, ask us questions. Help
:14:23. > :14:27.us understand ourselves. Those personas he too gone. Character
:14:28. > :14:32.after character. It was helpful for us because he shifted as the Times
:14:33. > :14:37.shifted. We grew up with him. He remained relevant. What was crucial
:14:38. > :14:41.about him, what he said was universal. Those characters were not
:14:42. > :14:47.just awed folk. They were versions of the Everyman. They were coming up
:14:48. > :14:58.with themes which are important to all of us. When we show our own
:14:59. > :15:01.children David Bowie, even 13-year-olds, quite extraordinary. I
:15:02. > :15:06.called him the Picasso of pop in the way that he synthesised ideas of the
:15:07. > :15:07.modern age and make sense of them in beautiful, precise pieces of work,
:15:08. > :15:14.pieces of art. And there will be a special
:15:15. > :15:17.programme on the life and music of of David Bowie on BBC One
:15:18. > :15:19.a little later tonight. That's David Bowie -
:15:20. > :15:22.Sound and Vision - We've been reporting on the death of
:15:23. > :15:37.David Bowie - musical superstar and And still to come, last minute pleas
:15:38. > :15:54.for junior doctors in England How some of the country's biggest
:15:55. > :16:05.counties are not taking of the most polluting vehicles on the road.
:16:06. > :16:08.An aid convoy carrying a month's supply of food,
:16:09. > :16:10.medicine and winter clothing, has entered the besieged Syrian town
:16:11. > :16:15.40,000 people are trapped there by a government blockade
:16:16. > :16:17.and they've received no food since October.
:16:18. > :16:20.There are reports that some have starved to death.
:16:21. > :16:21.The convoy left Damascus this morning.
:16:22. > :16:29.Our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet reports.
:16:30. > :16:35.Aid finally arrived in Madaya just as darkness fell.
:16:36. > :16:42.Cheers of joy and relief rose from the crowds.
:16:43. > :16:45.Thousands waited all day in the cold at this barrier at the entrance
:16:46. > :16:50.Many had been living on boiled grass.
:16:51. > :16:54.Look at what we're eating, this woman wails.
:16:55. > :16:56.This cry for help was filmed by activists.
:16:57. > :17:00.But the UN says it has credible reports that people have
:17:01. > :17:09.Food, blankets, medicine will be unloaded in warehouses tonight.
:17:10. > :17:13.And the same mission is now underway in northern Syria in two villages
:17:14. > :17:23.In this conflict, food is used by all sides as a weapon of war.
:17:24. > :17:29.Images said to be Madaya's emaciated children raised alarm in many
:17:30. > :17:37.This is now the face of Syria's suffering.
:17:38. > :17:41.Today's aid will help ease this crisis but it's not enough.
:17:42. > :17:44.We know that in the city there is around 40,000 people
:17:45. > :17:50.We are taking in supplies that should feed them for a month.
:17:51. > :17:54.But what we really need is access all the time to ensure this
:17:55. > :17:59.The lorries will keep moving if there are no other delays.
:18:00. > :18:01.But missions like this are urgently needed across Syria.
:18:02. > :18:03.4.5 million people are living in desperate conditions,
:18:04. > :18:16.The Chairman of the Environment Agency, Sir Phillip Dilley,
:18:17. > :18:17.has resigned following criticism over his handling of
:18:18. > :18:21.Sir Phillip was summoned before MPs after it emerged
:18:22. > :18:23.he was at his holiday home in Barbados while parts
:18:24. > :18:25.of the country battled severe weather.
:18:26. > :18:37.Our Science Editor David Shukman is here.
:18:38. > :18:44.This happened over Christmas, why is he only resigning now? Yesterday
:18:45. > :18:49.they dug up new details, the newspapers about their holiday in
:18:50. > :18:53.Barbados. MPs from both sides of the house representing victims of the
:18:54. > :18:58.flooding Lancashire and Yorkshire, he was enjoying the Caribbean. In a
:18:59. > :19:03.statement this evening, he said he thought the job was part-time, three
:19:04. > :19:07.days per week. He said he never realised he would be on-call around
:19:08. > :19:12.the clock short notice but he will not get much sympathy. Before this
:19:13. > :19:14.blew up, he said it would be a good thing for someone in his position
:19:15. > :19:17.blew up, he said it would be a good turn up at flood events and
:19:18. > :19:17.blew up, he said it would be a good was happening, to see if he could
:19:18. > :19:22.help but this comes as was happening, to see if he could
:19:23. > :19:24.review into flood defences. was happening, to see if he could
:19:25. > :19:26.holiday in the sun at the was happening, to see if he could
:19:27. > :19:55.was becoming a distraction. Thank you.
:19:56. > :20:05.he compiled a video diary of his shifts on Saturday and Sunday.
:20:06. > :20:08.could mean longer hours and reduced pay.
:20:09. > :20:16.In its current form, this contract will stretch already
:20:17. > :20:18.demoralised and overstretched junior doctors to a breaking point.
:20:19. > :20:21.But the government says many doctors will be better off and protected
:20:22. > :20:28.It will be damaging and we will do everything we can to mitigate
:20:29. > :20:30.its effects but you can't have a strike of this scale
:20:31. > :20:37.in our NHS without there being some real difficulties for patients.
:20:38. > :20:39.Hospitals like Milton Keynes University Hospital have made
:20:40. > :20:42.contingency plans for the junior doctors walk-out which will affect
:20:43. > :20:59.Other patients have been told their appointments have been
:21:00. > :21:01.postponed although some will go ahead involving consultants
:21:02. > :21:03.who are not affected by the industrial action.
:21:04. > :21:05.Across England, more than 1400 in patient and more than 2500
:21:06. > :21:07.outpatient procedures and appointments have been put off
:21:08. > :21:20.Because it is the not knowing that is the horrid part.
:21:21. > :21:22.Doctors like Henry will walk out tomorrow but talks will continue
:21:23. > :21:33.in the hope of averting two further planned strikes.
:21:34. > :21:36.The Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, is to meet officials from G4S
:21:37. > :21:38.after allegations of abuse and mistreatment at a young
:21:39. > :21:40.offenders' institution run by the company.
:21:41. > :21:42.The claims, to be aired tonight on the BBC's Panorama programme,
:21:43. > :21:44.centre on the Medway Secure Training Centre,
:21:45. > :22:04.Here's our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt.
:22:05. > :22:06.This is Medway secure training centre in Kent,
:22:07. > :22:10.here 12-17 year olds who have committed crimes
:22:11. > :22:18.Panarama were able to see first-hand the way some trainees were treated.
:22:19. > :22:22.Filming secretly, he witnessed some staff slapping some children.
:22:23. > :22:31.The teenagers are challenging, this 14-year-old is trying to wind
:22:32. > :22:34.up a male member of staff on the other side of the door
:22:35. > :22:36.but rather than calming the situation, when the boy appears
:22:37. > :22:41.radio, the man moves in rapidly to restrain him.
:22:42. > :22:48.The programme shows one has his fingers on the boy's
:22:49. > :22:51.windpipe as he complained he can't breathe.
:22:52. > :22:54.More generally, some staff appeared to deliver the hide their actions
:22:55. > :23:03.The Justice Secretary told MPs he will meet officials
:23:04. > :23:05.from the company that runs Medway tomorrow,
:23:06. > :23:10.We must treat these allegations with the utmost seriousness.
:23:11. > :23:12.Kent Police and Medway child protection team are investigating
:23:13. > :23:15.matters on the basis of the information shared with them
:23:16. > :23:18.The police will decide in due course whether criminal charges
:23:19. > :23:27.G4S has suspended seven staff, it has already said it is shocked
:23:28. > :23:30.by the allegations and that with others involved in safeguarding
:23:31. > :23:32.children at Medway, it will investigate thoroughly but it
:23:33. > :23:38.won't comment further until it has seen the programme.
:23:39. > :23:40.You can see the story in full on
:23:41. > :23:42.Panorama: Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed, on BBC One,
:23:43. > :23:49.Anglican church leaders from around the world are meeting in Canterbury,
:23:50. > :23:52.hoping to resolve differences over homosexuality and women clerics.
:23:53. > :23:53.There's a deep divide within the church,
:23:54. > :23:55.with African bishops threatening to walk out.
:23:56. > :23:56.Our religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt
:23:57. > :24:07.Through the ages, Canterbury Cathedral has seen
:24:08. > :24:10.many of its archbishops martyred for their faith.
:24:11. > :24:12.Its archbishop today, Justin Welby, has been trying to resolve
:24:13. > :24:15.the future of the Anglican Communion and bring together liberals
:24:16. > :24:22.and conservatives to bridge the divides over homosexuality.
:24:23. > :24:25.There are deep divisions within individual churches
:24:26. > :24:36.I think I would be disappointed if, at the end of the week,
:24:37. > :24:39.it just looked like a fudge, like papering over the issues.
:24:40. > :24:41.What happens if some of the primates, as we've heard
:24:42. > :24:43.they might, actually do walk out of the meeting,
:24:44. > :24:47.some of the most conservative primates?
:24:48. > :24:54.If they decide to leave, that is up to them.
:24:55. > :25:00.We are a Communion, but each church is autonomous.
:25:01. > :25:03.So, will the most traditionalists from Africa and elsewhere really
:25:04. > :25:05.walk out of this meeting angry with churches that have
:25:06. > :25:12.When the North Americans took their stand, it
:25:13. > :25:16.Therefore, there has been trouble getting together all this time
:25:17. > :25:20.So it is possible that that trouble will continue and it will manifest
:25:21. > :25:24.itself in folk having to leave the meeting, and I understand that.
:25:25. > :25:26.Clergyman Jeremy Davies wants the primates here to
:25:27. > :25:28.stand up for gay people, especially in Africa.
:25:29. > :25:30.He married his long-term partner Simon, despite the Church
:25:31. > :25:35.of England's ban on same-sex marriage.
:25:36. > :25:38.The church has an opportunity to be prophetic about it,
:25:39. > :25:41.to stand up against not only the vilification of gay people
:25:42. > :25:50.but the way they are oppressed and abused, and often put to death.
:25:51. > :25:52.The primates will come together here to pray.
:25:53. > :25:55.So far, we are told, the meeting is going well.
:25:56. > :26:01.Caroline Wyatt, BBC News, Canterbury.
:26:02. > :26:07.Time for a look at the weather - here's Sarah Keith-Lucas.
:26:08. > :26:18.It has been a day of sunny spells and heavy showers. That was captured
:26:19. > :26:22.nicely by a weather watcher. Dark shower clouds looming. Heavy showers
:26:23. > :26:26.set to continue through the course of this evening and overnight. Low
:26:27. > :26:30.pressure firmly in charge towards the east. Rotating around that
:26:31. > :26:35.low-pressure, brisk winds and heavy showers. Severe gales in parts of
:26:36. > :26:42.western Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Irish Sea coasts in
:26:43. > :26:45.particular. 1-6 degrees Celsius in towns and cities but cold in the
:26:46. > :26:50.countryside. Could be some frost and icy stretches first thing on Tuesday
:26:51. > :26:56.morning. Take care on an treated services, slippery roads and icy
:26:57. > :27:00.patches. Another day of sunny intervals but blustery showers.
:27:01. > :27:04.Heavy showers across parts of Scotland falling as snow on top of
:27:05. > :27:08.the hills. A chance of hail and thunder in Northern Ireland mixed in
:27:09. > :27:13.with showers. Sunny intervals and showers in northern England.
:27:14. > :27:18.Blustery winds in the Irish Sea. Hill snow in central Wales but South
:27:19. > :27:22.and Southern and central England, dry and bright weather. It will feel
:27:23. > :27:28.cold, particularly exposed to the north breeze. Wind chill in
:27:29. > :27:34.tomorrow's forecast. The heaviest showers out of Northern Ireland, in
:27:35. > :27:40.the Midlands. Hill snow for parts of Wales and Scotland. Drier, brighter
:27:41. > :27:43.weather with sunshine. Highs of 5-8 degrees Celsius. Typical but turning
:27:44. > :27:47.colder through the course of this week. Feeling more like winter and
:27:48. > :27:50.less like spring. In a moment the news where you are -
:27:51. > :27:54.but before we go another look back at David Bowie's
:27:55. > :27:56.incredible life and work.