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sir? >> those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins...

supplies are at a premium. my guest is leopoldo lopez, long—time venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner, now in exile in spain. is it time for him to acknowledge failure? leopoldo lopez, in madrid, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity. its great to have you on the show. back in 2019, your big idea as a key leader of the venezuelan opposition was to undermine socialist president nicolas maduro by creating an alternative president ...

The afternoon. Some flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. Heights of lightning and rumbles of thunder. Heights 01 14 lightning and rumbles of thunder. Heights of 1a to 18 degrees. Through tonight, zones of wet weather pushing northwards. Some of the rain very heavy and thundery, particularly into the far south and southwest later in the night. A little bit chilly in the north east of scotland. Elsewhere, it will be mild, really wet to start across the south. These heavy bursts of rain wil...

on the streets of lima, members of the security forces confronted crowds demanding the resignation of president dina boluarte. youre watching bbc news. now, its time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. venezuelas authoritarian leader, nicolas maduro, has, for the moment, outmanoeuvred those forces inside and outside the country, intent on his removal. last month, the opposition gave up on their own alternative president and indicated a willingness to negotiate with ma...

another potential presidential candidate. the news broke during our show yesterday, former president mike pence showed a batch of documents classified markings were found at his home in indiana last week. he medially handed them over to the doj. meanwhile, fox checked in with other past occupants of the white house. we got a quick response from the office of former george w. bush who said they checked but dont have any classified documents. the office of his successor former president ...

against top democrats for leading the trump impeachment by kicking them off the house intelligence committee while ignoring george santos campaign financial possible violations and false resume? we will have the latest tit for tat from capitol hill. good day, im andrea mitchell in washington. president biden is about to announce a major shift in his policy for arming ukraine. he is sending advanced u.s. tanks that the pentagon has been insisting cannot be properly maintained on the b...

had performed better than hamilton last year and his victories were worth more than his. this is what the seven—time world champion tweeted earlier. quite simply a thumbs up with a photograph of him and fernando alonso on the podium at the united states grand prix in 2007 in the middle of an acrimonious season together. make of that what you will. thats all from sportsday. well have more throughout the evening. this week on the show... pulling down the past. i believe that the monume...

Prime minister at her balmoral home in scotland next week, not in london, breaking meanwhile the final hustings to choose that Prime Minister either liz truss or rishi sunak is under way at wembley. Russia has completely stopped gas supplies to europe through a major pipeline. It says Maintenance Work is needed on Nord Stream One for three days. Its a key pipeline which carries gas from russia into europe. It runs from western russia, under the baltic sea into europe via germany. Russias state o...

for 300 years, on and off, estonia was part of russia. ruled first by the czarist empire, then the soviet union. links between the two are many and deep — in fact, around a third of the people here have russian as theirfirst language. but since the invasion of ukraine in february, the government has steered a course very firmly away from its powerful neighbour. there have been travel bans for russian tourists, and something even more dramatic. historic russian and soviet monuments ar...

as president putin begins drafting new troops in the fight in ukraine. some flights out of russia have sold out. also in the programme... the bank of england raises interest rates to their highest level for m years — it warns the uk may already been in recession. and a fracking ban in england is lifted in a bid to increase energy production — but critics say the move could harm the environment and trigger earthquakes. the us secretary of state has said russias president, vladimir p...