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welcome to a special thanksgiving edition of th show to what i am coming the mehdi hassan book club via oprah. bucks and all have been mainstay of the show giving me a chance to dive deep into a subject. book segments helping me understand the male strip of this relentless news cycle so we will revisit some of our famous conversations wit authors this year. how the media needs to cover elections when one party i campaigning against democrac how marjorie taylor greene has gone from the ...

grown into something larger an more fruitful than we uppe match and. the velshi banned book club wa created in response to the targeting a removal of so many important books from libraries and school curricula across th country. according to p.e.n. america, and nonprofit organization the champions the freedom to rea and write in the united states from july 2021 to june 2022, there were 2532 instances of individual books been banned thats a shocking number what the figure doesnt make cl...

right now in buffalo a blizzard warning is in effect until tomorrow morning. all the impacts and when well see some relief coming up. the january 6 it committee lays blame squarely at the feet of former president trump. whats next in the investigation? ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is back home after a historic visit to washington, and hes warning ukrainians they could see more russian missile strikes over christmas. the next phase of this war and how the just passed u.s....

after a monster winter storm clashes many of people in its path. hundreds of people are likely still trapped in their vehicles. one of them is an 85-year-old grandmother stuck with her son. they have been turning the car on and off to have heat and save gas. a life-threatening blizzard banning travel and declaring a state of emergency. sub vero temperatures are covering huge swaths of the country more than 100 people people remain under windchill alerts. nearly 2 million are without po...

eve. great to be with you bryan. >> im bryan llenas, and theres hartsfield-jackson international airport, but well start with alexis with the brutal temperatures. >> hi, bryan, as you noticed in new york city, its frigid outside, the people are still out and about for the holiday season. across the country though were talking high winds and heavy snow and lots of flooding here in the northeast. take a look here on your screen. this is what weve seen across the area here and even in par...

everything he wanted it to >> plus, we will take stack of the year that was in the unite states supreme court from th overturning of roe to th numerous ethical concern swelling around certai justices my question, what can we expec from the high court in 2023? and, later, ukrainian presiden volodymyr zelenskyy tell congress that his country is alive and kicking while urging lawmakers to approve more aid. my question is, what shoul u.s. support for ukraine looke like when a republican ho...

torres feared the voters have more household help us in provided. the telegraph says the front runner may set out her plans to tackle the energy crisis on day one according to that paper. she is the headline on most of the papers on saturday. meanwhile, the times covers russian president putin cutting off a major european gas pipeline indefinitely — which he blames on an an oil leak. none of the papers seemed very convinced by that explanation. the ft reports on how the worlds leadin...

normally do it, by hash tagging it. white now theyre protesting a nazi-owned tattoo shop. i say allegedly nazi-owned tattoo shop. i dont want to get sued by nazis. ♪ ♪ >> what can i do? now thats a question i hear a lot from people in my travels during these hectic times. but if im honest, its really a question that i mostly hear from white people. specifically well-meaning, white liberal people. black people dont ask what we can do to help. in our who are weve always had to figure...

prison. and bbc reporter is investigating a man who used local children to film personalised greetings, some containing racist comments. he now faces caught in malawi. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk with me, sarah montague. my guest today is a hugely successful afrobeat star. the nigerian omah lay is just 25, but hes broken into western markets, partly because of a collaboration with the canadian singerjustin bieber. hes here in london on a world tour now. afrobeats eme...

that was pioneered by the legendary fela kuti. the latest incarnation of afrobeats is less politically charged. omah lay sings about love, heartbreak and longing. with western megastars like ed sheeran and madonna tapping into this musical style, what does it mean for the way that afrobeats will evolve? omah lay, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. fela kuti described his afrobeat music as, "a fusion and combination "of highlife, jazz, funk, psych rock, salsa, black power, "anti—colonial...