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Election in october. the talks today are focussing on safeguarding democracy, rejecting extremism and violence in politics, climate change, and lulas effort to re—engage with the global community. the british director, hugh hudson, best known for the film, chariots of fire, has died after a short illness. he was 86. he began his career making tv adverts in the 1960s, but his big screen directing debut, chariots of fire, won four oscars, including best picture. lancashire police maintain, they ...

Know, those are good, you know, areas of bipartisanship, you know, applause points for the presidents address but republicans are really going to be focussing on how the president approaches them. they feel like because the white house did or democrats did lose at least the house in the midterm elections he should be coming to them with a more compromising attitude, not just on these issues such as mental health and veterans, which we should agree on butt issues lik the debt limit. the white hou...

Centred right across the uk and that means bags of sunshine on a dry, settled day on sunday. just a little cloud hanging across parts of scotland. it is not terribly cold but it will mean under clearer skies, a frost by the time we get to sunday night. thanks, nick. and thats bbc news at ten on thursday the 2nd of february. theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. newsnight isjust newsnight is just about to get under way. the news con...

Feelings matter? >> yeah. and you know, willie, i talked to a reck strategist, top republican strategist before the election, bragging about the number of mail pieces that candidates were sitting out about trans-athletes. just one after another after another. i just listened. okay. and then i thought, but theres only zero point zero zero 3% of americans who identify as trans. and youre -- okay. thats fine. so out of 322 million americans, okay. so youre focussing on 0.0003% of americans? thats l...

Like a distillation of the problems that a lot of places, i think are facing. >> jeff king is a lawyer and teacher at uc berkeley. he is also the founder and ceo of open vellejo, an information and advocacy website focussing on transparency here in his hometown. >> our first scoop was that vellejo cops have been bending the tips of their badges, one for each person that they killed. >> weve seen this before in police departments, specifically in los angeles, with click names like the grim reaper...

>> lets get it done. >> your message, it seems to me, is even more dire than it was in the first "avatar" 13 years ago. >> yeah, well, look, the world -- the natural world is not getting better but suffering more and more with species extinction and focussing with this film on the ocean and the creatures of the ocean, the habitat of the ocean and its not doing that well on our world and we have to do better. i mean, i dont think the film is preaching but the message is clear and maybe if people ...

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Were released on wednesday. they show fed chairjerome powell and his colleagues are determined to keep raising the cost of borrowing his year, albeit at a slower pace than in 2022 — and want the markets to know they mean what they say about focussing on the fight against inflation. samira hussain has more from new york. no—one in the federal open markets committee expects to touch interest rates at the us any time in 2023 and that is in the face of stubbornly rising prices and a very strong ...

Chinas sudden announcement of relaxing the Zero-Covid is because President Xi Jinping believed that this policy was weakening the economy excessively, James Stent writes in Nikkei Asia.

They report that rishi sunak is coming under pressure from tory mps to accelerate it. meanwhile, the is focussing on strep a and warns that the government may have to buy extra antibiotics to protect children from infections. the metros front page is dedicated to the tory peer michelle mone — the daily mirror is highlighting the grief of stella lilys father after she was named as the ninth victim. the metros front page is dedicated to the tory peer michelle mone — shes requesting a leave of ...