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Most decorated 0lympian. lets head to the bbc sports centre and speak to gavin ramjaun. very important boxing match taking place but for that and lets start with jason kenny. he does have the midas touch, doesnt it? film. with jason kenny. he does have the midas touch, doesnt it?— midas touch, doesnt it? oh, my word. midas touch, doesnt it? oh, my word- seven _ midas touch, doesnt it? oh, my word. seven gold _ midas touch, doesnt it? oh, my word. seven gold medals - midas touch, doesnt it? oh...

You grow sugar, you consume it. now, we all have a sugar problem in the caribbean because we have been eating sugar as a meal and exposed to that, and now we are all addicted to it, with the consequences. we have to repair that. so, you say every community has to go about the way that reparations are made in their own fashion that suits their community? let me tell you what the black entertainment billionaire robert johnson in the united states says. he wants $1a trillion in reparations. he says...

And so there is a diversity of content. the british working class people, the majority of british people do not know anything of significance about what they did to other people in other parts of the world in order to secure their enrichment. so, yes, we have this diversity of opinion, but this is why reparatoryjustice is much more than a conversation about the african people specifically. what you are talking about is the unravelling of modernity, the crumbling of the structures that supported ...

Across the dynamics of the black world and the brown world. now, to expect one voice is to actually hinder your progress. but surely not everybody of african descent, regardless of which continent they live — the americas, where many enslaved africans ended up, countries like brazil, the caribbean here, europe, all over the world. we all know what we want, but there are different ways to conceptualise it, different ways to proceed. there are multiple roads leading to the roundabout. and we do ...

And wealth at the time, so why should they be concerned about it today? it has always been a feature of the victimisation of the black community. all right, but how do you make the case now? look, here we are in barbados, its a middle—income country, so it doesnt qualify for a lot of development aid. so, when you have somebody like rory stewart, who, in the united kingdom, was a former secretary for international development, and he says he would have liked to target uk aid to the poorest peop...

They appealed to the monarchy, they appealed to the government, there was silence because that is the history. but let me tell you, theres a photograph on the cover of my recent book, britains black debt, and it shows queen elizabeth visiting the bell sugar plantation in 1966, february, on the eve of independence, and what did the queen do? she came to barbados to visit a sugar plantation that was owned by herfirst cousin. and here is the earl and the queen on the sugar plantation in barbados in...

The world saw for themselves what we have been seeing all along in our communities. but that has been taking place all over the world. we have seen it in south africa during the anti—apartheid struggle. the world did not really care about apartheid in south africa until the killing of young people, young people on the streets demonstrating, then the observations came together. a lot of people look at the african—american diaspora and, you know, see what happens there in the united states as ...

All over africa, what happened to the indigenous people of the new world, all of this is part of the same conversation. the african part of it is a critical part of it, but it goes beyond the african experience. so, do you think that in the light of the killing of george floyd last year, and the blm protests, that there is a new awakening? i tell you what michelle bachelet, the un human rights commissioner, former president of chile, said after the killing of floyd. "behind todays racial violenc...

Expertise for a man who finished in the bottom half of the top third of his glass. it sounds like he could use a lesson from a man called tucker. >> the cdc does not make laws in this country, its not allowed to. under the u.s. constitution, making laws as the exclusive role of the congress. you vote for your senators and your congressmen and they decide what the rules are. that is known as representative democracy. its been in our system for nearly 250 years. but apparently, its now over. >> gr...

Thats existed for years and goes back well beyond the arab spring revolution of 2011. is there a danger, though, that the response becomes a default — "oh, look, what we need is a strong leader, someone who will get things done"? i think there is, and i think, and i hope we can take at face value the presidents words that he doesnt want to consolidate power in his own hands but i think mina is right — the trade unions, other civil groups will, one hopes, be keeping an eye on this because, fo...