escalation a strike on an iranian consular building in syria. two iranian generals with the country s revolutionary guards were killed, and the incident was widely blamed on israel, although it hasn t publicly acknowledged involvement iran promised revenge, and overnight on 13 april, it launched a major aerial assault on israel. the majority of projectiles were brought down by israel s air defences, helped by western and regional allies. which leads us to this latest incident in the past 2a hours, what appears to be a limited strike by israel on iran, with reports of an israeli drone attack and explosions in the central province of isfahan. hamidreza azizi is an iran analyst and visiting fellow in the africa and middle east division at the german institute for international and security affairs. i asked him what can we read into iran s relatively muted response. that s a let s get more now on the rising tension between israel and iran, that s a sign that the iranian side do
sathnam sanghera, welcome to hardtalk. it s nice to be back. it s great to have you back, and you are back with a new book, which i have here empireworld. it s your take on just how massive the impact of the british empire was and still is on the world. you certainly don t undersell your idea, it s subtitled how british imperialism has shaped the globe. i really do believe that. i think the british empire explains so much about people s daily lives around the world, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the bbc world service used to be known as the bbc empire service. it explains so much about our daily news. you ve just come back from guyana there s a border dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, there s a gap between the way in which britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did before we go aro
many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights. especially since i was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and in fact demanded be ended, roe v. wade. that s a lie, of course. only the extreme religious right wanted to take away a woman s right to control her own reproductive choices. but trump wants to have it both ways on abortion. trying to hang on to some women voters while not angering his evangelical base. senator elizabeth warren joins me to discuss that as well as president biden s new student debt forgiveness plan. and how russian propaganda is seeping into the rhetoric of congressional republicans. happy eclipse day to all of those who were lucky enough to be in the path. let s hope that the majority of you didn t stare directly into the flaming ball of plasma like your former president, who seemed to think the laws of science did not apply to him. april 8th is no
another aftershock. search crewing working through rubble after an earthquake rocked the country. we have the latest. and danelo cavalcante, the fugitive spotted on surveillance and changed his appearance. an incredible moment. american tennis player coco gauff becomes a grand slam champion. we have the highlights. we begin this morning with reports of a 3.9 aftershock in morocco. this comes two days after friday s major earthquake in the north africa nation. more than 2,000 people were killed. nearly 2,000 injured in the 6.8 quake. it is the country s deadliest earthquake in decades, and those numbers are expected to rise as rescuers dig through the rubble. relief efforts are arriving slowly to some of the most remote areas. drone footage shows the scope of the damage. look at this. entire villages flattened. homes and buildings, just piles of clay and brick. earlier a person was pulled from under a collapsed building and carried to safety. this is one of the rescues
rest there. are fears the death toll will continue to rise as emergency crews dig through the rubble of collapsed buildings but many are holding out hope theme find people looichd under that debris. those who survived are now coping with trauma. many sleeping outdoors after losing homes, others with a place to live rest tate to return home worried that there could be aftershocks at their homes could collapse. morocco king has instructed officials to set up inter minimum material commission to provide relief. we get details now from cnn s sam kylie. king mohammed has declared three days of national mourning because his country has been completely devastated by an extraordinary earthquake totally unexpected in cities like this, marrakech. this has been the scene in the medina the most ancient part of the city a building ripped away by this earthquake but the scenes have been even worse in the interior of the country where one woman who was trapped for some 12 whurs pulled fro