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Lgbt rights are being trampled. for all those reasons, we are seeing a multiplication of protest. what does it mean? it means rights matter. 0k, well, lets. .. it matters to people. it matters to those who want to fight for their own humanity and that of their children. and we need to be there. yes, we may not get it right, but does it mean we should move away? absolutely not. we need to be there, you say. but what matters, if you are there, is your reputation, your credibility. would you accept...

Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. holding governments to account for their abuses of human rights is hard. it requires focused, forensic investigation, impartiality, and no little courage. for six decades, amnesty international has been advocating for prisoners of conscience in the face of state repression. but in recent times, its both broadened its focus, and faced unprecedented criticism. my guest is agnes callamard, secretary general of amnesty international. is amnesty facing a credib...

Symbol of freedom and equality, and what do you make of saudis record? yes, to me sports give me the right education. — yes, to me sports give me the right education, the right to be myself, and knowing that support means so much _ and knowing that support means so much to— and knowing that support means so much to me, it is definitely heartbreaking to see how saudi arabia — heartbreaking to see how saudi arabia and other countries are using sport— arabia and other countries are using sp...

Type erdogan. and just last week, we learned that president biden plans to send cluster munitions to ukraine. weapons banned by more than 100 countries, because of the danger posed to civilians, particularly children. and then theres israel, president biden now welcoming to the united states a man who is engaged in systemic abuses of the rights of palestinians. a man who was pushing a radical anti democratic effort to use their power and undermine his countrys judicial independence. theres no wo...

Countries because of the danger posed to civilians. particularly children. and then there is israel. president biden now welcoming to the united states a man who is engaged in systemic abuses of the rights of palestinians. a man who is pushing a radical, anti-democratic effort to undermine his countrys judicial independence. its no wonder the word i often used to describe american foreign policy right now is hypocrisy. and this hypocrisy undermines any credibility we might try to have on the wor...

Figuring out what the heck a. i. is. we know this much, we dont want it getting out of control and that was behind the big white house pow bow. edward lawrence on -- powwow. edward lawrence are on what became of that. >> reporter: well, seven major companies investing in artificial intelligence agreed to to self-regulate any new rollout of this technology, massive companies like amazon, google, meta-- which owns facebook -- microsoft, openai, anthropic and inflection. microsoft president brad sm...

Republicans are still supporting donald trump for this one? >> explained it as stockham syndrome a couple of days ago. but he kidnapped the republican party, abuses for years, and then all of a sudden, his biggest victims are now coming to court to protect him. thats all i can explain it with. look, at the end of the day, donald trump has done almost irreparable damage to the current republican party, and its time for a gop to point out to see these electorates, which we are going to see the sam...

We all understand that when people arent subject to rules, they -- everyone wants to give themselves the benefit of the doubt. everybody thinks that they are well intentioned. when you have this situation where these very powerful people are subject to no rules, they give themselves more and more leeway, operating in ways that have nothing to do with the rest of us as americans operate. we are subject to rules. the first thing is that you just need rules. i do think that having some real require...

And a third of the searches thah were sought by the fbi andly a secretly authorized by a federal judge were supposedly in error. this is astonishing and unprecedented. fbi agents have turned whistleblowers.s, they have briefly come forward to report agency abuses the congress. they have been severely punished by fbi christopher wray. in a report titled fbi whistleblower testimony highlights government abuse, misallocation of resources andho retaliation, the whistleblowers have had their securitn...

Over 300% in the third of the searches sought by the fbi and secretly authorized by a federal judge were supposedly in error. this is astonishing and unprecedented. fbi agents have turned whistleblowers they have come forward to report agency abuses, they have been severely punished by fbi brass, that is christopher wray in a report titled fbi whistleblower testimony highlights government abuse misallocation of resources and retaliation whistleblowers had their security clearances revoked and su...