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30 seconds to on air! 0k, and you are just here. couldnt i sit farther back? sir anthony hopkins playing an ordinary man with an extraordinary story. sir nicholas winton was just 29 in 1938 when he embarked on a campaign to bring hundreds of refugee children from prague to london. for 50 years, he didnt talk about his efforts until they were revealed by the bbc tv programme thats life. if they hadnt been rescued and brought over to england, these children would have been killed by the ...

alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliaments foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we cant say, "well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict," because unfortun...

is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands tha...

the city is growing in stature, physically, but i think also in terms of its reputation, both in the uk and around the world. this was, obviously, the home of industry going back a couple of centuries. hit a decline in the second part of the 20th century, but manchester is most definitely back. and i think there is a lot of energy flowing around the city right now. but i guess we have to measure your performance against promises, and you made some key promises. one was on housing — t...

evening. i wonder if i can ask you first of all, how would you describe the length of time it has taken to get to this point? frankly terrible. we could have resolved this entire issue when ron warmington and iain henderson went in in the first place, if the post office had not tried to cover everything up and to protect the brand at the expense of the sub—postmasters. —— ron warmington and ian henderson pulled up so its terrible. d0 and ian henderson pulled up so its terrible. ,...

thank you. a great pleasure to have you here. you have just written a book, power and progress, which goes through the impacts of some of the great technological shifts in human history over the past millennium. would you say that artificial intelligence, the supremacy of the algorithm, represents one of those transformational moments for humankind? im not sure that it does. but there is a fair chance that it will have transformative effects. it is all commonplace to compare it to the ...

prosecution for ordinary acts is just absurd-— prosecution for ordinary acts is ust absurd. �* . . just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually. _ just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually, if _ just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually, if you _ just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually, if you dont - just absurd. but the trump argument is that actually, if you dont have - is that actually, if you dont have presidential immunity, the diffic...

this will give the sheikh hasina her fourth consecutive term as prime minister, and herfifth overall. the election was boycotted by bangladeshs main opposition party, the bnp, which said the process wasa sham. our south asia correspondent samira hussain has been monitoring events for us in dhaka. the results of these elections come as no real surprise. prime minister sheikh hasina was all but guaranteed a win. but now there going to be some questions about whether the results actually ...

championship. shortly, he will have a lot of sponsorship deals ahead too, a lot of instagram and x followers as well. he took his gcses just six months ago. i understand his next ambition is when he turned 17 later this month, to start to i7 later this month, to start to learn to drive! thank you very much, joe and carl! thank you very much, joe and carl! thank you. lets talk now to jamie caven, himself a former world youth champion of darts and now a director at the professional darts...

of the great technological shifts in human history over the past millennium. would you say that artificial intelligence, the supremacy of the algorithm, represents one of those transformational moments for humankind? im not sure that it does. but there is a fair chance that it will have transformative effects. it is all commonplace to compare it to the fire, or to the rise of industrial machinery starting in the 18th century, it remains to be seen whether it will be as important for ou...