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elegant dinners. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, its not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. its good to be with you. its good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of th...

welcome to bbc news. our top story today: the us defense secretary says he had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart — in the aftermath of a collision between a russian fighterjet and a us drone. the race is now on to recover the wreckage of the drone which is thought to be twelve hundred metres deep in the black sea. russia has also said it will try to find the wreckage. meanwhile, americas top general said the whole incident was a result of russias increasingly aggressive ...

government in its history. palestinian disillusion with the status quo seems to be stoking militancy. my guest is palestinian politician, physician and civil rights activist mustafa barghouti. what, if anything, can the palestinians do to improve their situation? mustafa barghouti, in ramallah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. nice to be with you. thank you. good to have you on the show. lets start with the situation in the west bank, where you sit, in ramallah. is there any semblance o...

the officers allegedly fired tear gas into the crowds — causing the stampede that killed 135 people. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. ever since the failure of the so—called oslo process to deliver a lasting israeli—palestinian peace, that conflict has been a matter of mutual recrimination and sporadic violence. but now the conditions seem ripe for something different, something worse. israel has the most far—right government in its history. pa...

romania is notably reticent about the scale of its aid to ukraine. why? my guest is romanias foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russias war on ukraine been to your country, romania? as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day ...

for next month. at least a0 people have died in a fire at a migrant processing facility on the us—mexico border. a billionaire�*s son who fled to yemen hours after the death of a student in central london 15 years ago admits to the bbc that he was involved in her death. and the bbc is granted rare access to londons new £5 billion super—sewer, aimed at cleaning up the river thames. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. its newsday. welcome to the programme. we begi...

hello. im sumi somaskanda. the fbi has arrested the suspected leaker of classified pentagon documents. his name is jack teixeira, a 21—year—old member of the intelligence wing of the massachsetts air national guard. agents swooped in to arrest teixeira at a property in north dighton, massachusetts. he oversaw a private online group named thug shaker central, where 20—30 people, mostly young and men teenagers, came together over a shared interest in god, video games and guns. his ...

the nuremberg trials have made genocide and other crimes against humanity less likely to be committed in the world today? ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. you were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. you moved to the united states with your family when you were a little baby. you really epitomise the american dream, a kind of rags to riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to harvard law school. we arrived i...

sculptures honour various historical and culturalfigures. but how should society commemorate controversial people from the past? barbara chase—riboud, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. were sitting here at a major exhibition of your work called infinite folds, and you started your artistic training at the age of seven. how on earth did you know at that early age that you wanted to become an artist? i didnt know i wanted to be an artist. it was my mother and my grandmother who decided t...

for the first time — after becoming the first former us president to ever face criminal charges. these were the crowds of supporters who greeted him at his mar—a—lago estate. he arrived there after pleading not guilty to sa criminal charges at a court hearing in new york. in the speech, he criticised the case against him and repeated the false claims that hed been cheated out of office in 2020 by voting fraud. lets hearfrom him first. the only crime that i have committed is to fe...