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With the destruction of its energy grid. ukraines president volodymyr zelensky has called on his country to try to limit its use of energy. itsjust gone a50. good morning. now on bbc news, hardtalk welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. signing up for military service is a big deal. soldiers put their lives on the line for their country — no questions asked. but what if the soldier has questions, doubts, doesnt believe in the mission? should personal morality ever trump the military code? wel...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the conversations we must have with our loved ones, even when they’re difficult.

If democracy relies on a shared commitment to reaching consensus, to making accommodations even as, and precisely because, I hold things dearly, sacredly, then contempt necessarily corrodes democracy. Others stop being moral agents whom I must value and seek to share public space with. How do we overcome this corrosive element in our common life? By Julian Butler

For the process that led to those votes that did finally say capital punishment is abolished. well come to another of your values later, which is christianity, its very important to you, to yourfamily. did that mean that the morality of capital punishment, notjust the practicalities of how you legislate, was something that you did discuss at home? yes, i think we did, because i mean, that early period, i was very young. but i remember very distinctly in 1979, so the conservative manifesto, there...

That operates in a slightly different way or is that conversation always offer table? i think all conversation should be on the table, democracy and a healthy debate. in my view, i think it would be a big, big mistake to erode by the core principles of the nhs which is the universal, the free for everyone at the point of delivery. it is notjust the point of efficiency, it is very efficient... it is notjust the morality either, it is notjust the morality either, i think it is also the fact that t...

One of the worlds most egregious human rights abusers, responsible nor the murder of khashoggi." it is worth noting though the court did invite the biden administration to weigh in on this issue of immunity, the biden administration did not have to do so. they could have stayed silent. the u.s. has a long and shameful history when it comes to american presidents going along with saudi human rights abuses, because they control so much of the fossil fuels to which our country is so addicted. but t...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced tech bro who repeatedly claimed that he wanted to "do good" for the world while he still had billions of dollars in other people's money to spend, [...]

Did that mean that the morality of capital punishment, notjust the practicalities of how you legislate, was something that you did discuss at home? yes, i think we did, because i mean, that early period, i was very young. but i remember very distinctly in 1979, so the conservative manifesto, there was a conservative manifesto commitment to have a debate on making capital punishment available to the courts again. and they moved very quickly because the election was may and injuly they had this vo...

>> reporter: remember, this is the man who just a couple of weeks ago sent a letter to the national association of every team playing at this world cup essentially saying stick to politics, stick to football, i should say, lets not get involved in the politics and the morality. today his speech that went on for nearly an hour, a real monologue, has been criticized by human rights groups who have called it crass. and the president of the norweigian fa club, she described it as dangerous. remember...

Announcements and that is something given the history of this organization. it was at times quite jaw-dropping from the president. particularly, so quickly, falling off the back of that letter that he sent to all of the competing federations, suggesting they should stick to the football, not talk about politics, or morality. don was there listening in, watching on. what did you make of it? >> it was extraordinary, wasnt it? and the day before the world cup kicks off. i dont think football was re...