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an influential writer and academic who argues the only way to not be racist is to be actively anti—racist — a message he says children must hear. is his approach bound to intensify americas internal conflict? ibram x kendi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on. its a pleasure to have you here. your focus right now seems to be on children, and your contention that children, very young children even, should be told about racism, even if its not a daily reality that they ar...

all right, this is the big news tonight. cnn projects that vocal trump critic liz cheney has lost wyomings gop primary. well go straight to cnns jeff zeleny hes, in wyoming for us. also king at the magic wall. lets go to john first. john, liz cheney losing her primary tonight. what are the numbers? showing >> their showing, don, look at the numbers right here, not quite 2 to 1. but harriet hageman, the trump backed challenger to liz cheney is winning, and winning convincingly. many vot...

speech is the reason she lost. >> two years ago, i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trumps lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that in-abl enable his efforts to unravel our system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. >> so cheney will be out of office come january. until then, she continues at...

their intentions to run. those are the headlines. now on bbc news, its hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. the fractures in american society are widening over guns, abortion, education, and more. but the deepest, most traumatic fracture is surely over race — and it impacts all of the others. the us is post—slavery, post—segregation, but definitely not post—racism. my guest is ibram x kendi, an influential writer and academic who argues the only way to not be racis...

and the heat is on — the met office says today could be the hottest day of the year so far. some parts of the uk will be hotter than athens and ibiza today. whats it like where you are and how are you coping? get in touch @annitabbc and use the #bbcyourquestions also coming up — birth control for grey squirrels, as scientists hope to control an expanding population and save our native reds. hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. the foreign secretary, li...

but we wont know if that is true for months to come. >> cheneys campaign created a leadership action committee. how does she plan to use it? >> reporter: they say that she needs a type of a platform to launch the next chapter of her lil life, if you will. and they will try to find republican candidates and programs independents and others to endorse -- who do not support election deniers, who believe the truth. but there may be a limited number of candidates do that. and she can use th...

hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we start on wall street where stock markets have suffered their worst first half of the year in more than five decades. as of the close on thursday, the s&p 500 index of top us firms has lost more than 20% between january and june, a sell—off on a scale not seen since 1970 when president nixon was in the white house. for the tech—dominated nasdaq, its been even worse — a near 30% fall for the first half is the worst i...

second-guessing. legal, economic and political over his plan to cancel some student loan debt. >> in the details of our plan were working hard not only on loan forgiveness, but fixing a broken system. rain submerges entire towns in the south. flash flood fuel a life-or-death scramble to stay alive. >> we got everybody out, and thats the most important thing. everybody is safe. we got the staff and residents out. we can replace the stuff. the people are out. thats a good thing. up f...

good evening and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has insisted that questions over his leadership have been settled and that he will lead the conservative party into the next general election. his comments follow the tories�* defeat in two by—elections this week. speaking to the bbc from rwanda, where hes attending a commonwealth meeting, he said people were heartily sick of questions about his conduct and that a psychological transformation of his character would not happen. earl...

norway cancels this years oslo pride parade, after a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub, which police are treating as an act of �*islamist terrorism. and sir paul mccartney — the star of glastonbury — on stage in front of a massive crowd. hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled...