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the un launches an appeal for $1 billion to help turkey recover from last weeks catastrophic earthquakes. the british prime minister travels to northern ireland amid speculation about a post—brexit trade—deal that could revive the devolved government in belfast. and — an array of celebrities attend a memorial service for, dame vivienne westwood in london. the era defining, fashion designer died — aged 81, in december. hello and welcome to the programme. next week marks the firs...

inflation reduction act. would it were that simple. another bad memory from the 1980s, the threat to kill the author sir salman rushdie, came close to being fulfilled. liberals are relieved he survived, but have they helped to fuel intolerance? to discuss all that, in the studio are maria margaronis, a documentary—maker who, among other projects, has charted the crises, financial and environmental, which have afflicted greece. henry chu is part of the editorial team at the los angele...

Wipe out the usa too. he is offering to host vladimir putin and joe biden in minsk for talks. the us leader will be in poland next week. iam inviting president biden to belarus. its not far from warsaw — 30 minutes and hes here. i will persuade the president of russia to come too. we will sit down and reach an agreement. that is unlikely to happen. in the eyes of the west, alexander lukashenko is very much in russias camp, doing the kremlin�*s bidding. steve rosenberg, bbc news, minsk. speci...

Want _ countries, notjust saudi arabia, do want nuclear— countries, notjust saudi arabia, do want nuclear technology. its whether _ want nuclear technology. its whether president trump actually passed _ whether president trump actually passed any secrets along, and that we dont _ passed any secrets along, and that we dont know and will remain speculation for a long time. in a sense its _ speculation for a long time. in a sense its a _ speculation for a long time. in a sense its a symptom _ spe...

Moment where there is this thing going on called cancel culture in all of that, and sometimes words are given unimportance which does not take into account the context or the situation in which they are used. and theres this kind of great rise in identity politics in the united states which often seems to me to be partly a sort of defensive move but also an inability to engage in a broader way with social and political issues. but i do think that religious fanaticism and a sense of a shifting co...

That that there was this report made by the house oversight committee published in february 2019 which basically accused the administration of what it said was strong private commercial interest of pressing aggressively for the transfer of highly sensitive nuclear technology to saudi arabia, which posted if you are a potential risk to national security absent adequate safeguards. in a sense progress no great surprise that saudi arabia would want the technology given it knows that being an oil ec...