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Well behind — representation wanted? it was well behind other _ representation wanted? it was well behind other minority - well behind other minority diversities. the most successful lobby was from the deaf broadcasting council. subtitles and audio description. it took a while for the broadcasters and the regulators to get there but it is now a requirement for broadcasters to have virtually all their programming subtitled 10% of it audio description. 50 with the next wave of diversity challeng...

We will honor our commitments to taiwan under the taiwan relations act to help taiwan defend itself. you can imagine in beijing that theyre thinking if you wouldnt stick it out in afghanistan, will you really honor that promise the taiwan? and you cant just say it now. you cant just say, well, our credibilitys intact. its not. youve got to do some things to show that youre credible, and so i dont know whether its exercises or an arms package, but with weve got to start sending messages to the re...

Within the industry when they heard that message from you? very, very good. very positive. the _ very, very good. very positive. the commitments from the bbc and netflix to make in disabled shows— and netflix to make in disabled shows was huge. channel 4 made a similar— shows was huge. channel 4 made a similar commitment. sky is building — a similar commitment. sky is building and making a commitment have internal five but hopefully we will. and with that. _ but hopefully we will. and with...

Well see if president biden is able to continue that because it is a serious issue that we have to contend with. >> paul: just about 45 seconds left, general, the -- are you suggesting that we have to pare back some of our counterterror operations or perhaps ground commitments in the army to be able to invest more in technology against china and the navy? >> no, i dont think so at all. i believe the modest commitments that we have to make to stay on top of the five, six terrorist organizations t...

This week in your column saying 9/11 did not change everything. in fact, why dont you tell us what you meant? >> what i meant by that is it did not change our partisanship. it did not change our political polarization. that returned shortly after 9/11. george w. bush spent seven years in direct opposition by the democrats and indeed the media. he was often mocked, and i think that polarization has done a lot of damage to things we needed on that day, which was national security. i mean, today, p...

Has moved quite drasticallyl in the direction i would have wanted to take it. my reservations about some of| the austerity measures we took when i was in government in the coalition, also - some of the positionsj taken by theresa may and the instinct, as you put it, of the entire party, - which is to resist commitments by the state to extend the - support into peoples lives. all of that, i really love. and i always knew boris was going to do that. because he has always loved that stuff too. _ th...

I understand that you were actually in kabul on 9/11. look at that. wow. you look just the same. i wonder what are your reflections on how much has changed and perhaps maybe even more importantly what has stayed the same? >> reporter: where are we today. there is a massive breakdown in trust. we talk about going forward between the taliban and the united states. we hear from the secretary of state and from others that they hear the taliban words but they want to see their actions. it is the same...

Really been fully recovered by the time covid hit us. but you in spain are prepared to accept the conditionality? i was coming to that, precisely. i would definitely not call this conditionality. for the last three years since we took office injune 2018, we have had a road map of structural reforms — future—looking structural reforms. and this road map can now be accelerated and deepened thanks to this recovery plan, thanks to the funds that will come to support our investment and the reform...

It gets very complicated, and there seems to be division. can you convince me that europe has a common position? to me, its absolutely clear that the eu will be one of the leaders of this climate agenda. the green new deal is probably the most ambitious throughout the world. were very, i think, aware of the need to undertake these changes in the coming decades. we have no time to lose if we think about the young, future generations. from this point of view, also, spain is strongly committed, so ...

Who gave sanctuary to osama bin laden and defended him. we have 22 major figures in the new taliban government, many of whom are veterans of the previous taliban government. the foreign minister in the last regime who told the united states to pound sand when we said turn over osama bin laden or you will suffer consequences. he told us to get lost. he is now one of the leaders in the government. the people who have defended osama bin laden and who gave him protection and who helped him escape am...