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The czech... czech republic at the eurovision this year. i cannot believe i am here. i bet you thought the day might not come? theres been so many restrictions and confusions. and dramas coming here. all the way from prague, all the quarantine that we had to do. two weeks i didnt see my friends and family, to be able to make the final test and get on a special bus that did not stop at the gas stations because we wanted to be super safe. hello, ladies, you are smiling so nicely. yes, being here, ...

Just in the middle east, all over the world. what troubles me right now, and i must say that i am looking at the middle east conflict right now is a case study in a long range of abusive social media. and what worries me is the way that social media abuse, regardless of whether you are palestinian or israeli, western, eastern, northern, southern, we should be worried about the way that social media is used as weapons instead of instruments of peace, understanding. being abused and manipulated. a...

Coming to terms with my identity felt like trying to deny a part of myself that i thought would never be reality. i kind of felt like a someone put a cap on a volcano and i wasjust sitting on top of that volcano, not trying to let that cap go. but in the end the volcano exploded. i want to be referred to as andi from now on. i was just mostly scared of the people around me, what they would think. im so happy! after the volcano exploded, all these flowers and trees and life flourished because the...

Twitter spat between a supermodel and the israeli government. it might sound petty, but social media is now a weapon of war. the lines have been drawn, hearts and minds are the prize. to chat about this and a whole lot of other stuff, i have a lovely bunch of people with me. the visiting assistant professor of israel studies at northwestern university in the usa. professor of communications at the university of haifa. right of the middle east i. a journalist and a social media expert. and also w...

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The final rehearsals are done and the pyrotechnics are ready. the eurovision finalists compete tonight, after a pandemic—enforced break. and coming up... social media, anti—social media, breaking news, faking news. the programme about a revolution in media, the media show, is coming up with mobeen azhar. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the former bbc director—general lord hall has resigned as chairman of the national gallery, after facing criticism over panoramas interview with pri...

Frankly to have the kind of pop culture resonance come from a small country which does not have all that many prominent celebrities in order to do so. so i think it is a little bit ofjealousy on the part of the official israel account of how much power someone like bella hadid has on the social media sphere as opposed to an official account of a nation state. but i do think that the slogan that was being chanted there is an undertone, possibly, of ethnic cleansing, "from the river to the sea" in...

For over a year we came out and said were not going to prosecute low level offenses. violent crime went down 20% and property crime went down 39%. what that data suggests to me was that these low-level offenses, crime didnt go up. low level offenses never had

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♪♪ ♪♪ welcome back to "the cross connection," everybody. this is the part of the show where my panel and i discuss the hottest topics of the week including conspiracy queen marjorie taylor-greenes wild floor speech on tuesday opposing a january 6th commission and defending the insurrectionists. >> while its catch and release for domestic terrorist for blm, the people who breached the capitol on january 6th are being