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more urgent. my guest is boss of the international energy agency, fatih birol. will the much—vaunted transition to clean energy be derailed by a short—term energy panic? fatih birol in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, thank you very much. let me start, if i may, mr birol, with words of yours. not long ago you said, "what the world is going through today is a major, it might be the first, global energy crisis in terms of depth and complexity." with words like that, a...

come up, we were too busy investigating and prosecuting real crime, we knew then that politics ruins whatever it touches. religion, education, sports, and our justice system. now we are trying to reconcile competing realities, prosecutors like to ask question, who, what, where, when and how. and the evidence. what does the law say. we focus on the law because were a nation of laws. no one is above the law. but no one is beneath it either. fairness, impartiality, equality should mean so...

police officer and was off duty has dropped out of the race. >> it is extremely disappointing. political violence like this is not something new, being a black feel candidate running for office. >> politicians from both political parties also weighed in over the weekend on the sunday morning talk shows. >> we have some ideas coming from senator warren, signed letter along with 25 other democratic senators asking president biden to explore opening health care clinics on federal lands in...

this is on them tonight that we have a lot that we are learning. to top aides to the vice president testified in the dojs criminal investigation on january 6th. and the efforts to overturn our free and fair election. marc short who was chief of staff to then vice president mike pence confirming to cnn that he testified on friday in front of a d.c. grand jury. the new york times in the wall street journal reporting that greg jacobss general counsel has also testified. and what we are he...

controls and sensitive information without adequate oversight. zatko also alleges some of the companys senior most executives tried to cover up twitters vulnerabilities. cnns donie osullivan is here with the exclusive details. what are we seeing, what are the main headlines out of this disclosure? >> thats right, kaitlan, a lot to break down in this. this disclosure is in the hands of multiple u.s. law enforcement agencies, including the s.e.c. and the department of justice and today z...

right now, it seems many of those bridges are being burned. would you agree? well, i think its... yeah, absolutely. we see things have changed a lot in the last five to six years, basically. and a lot of dialogue has been cut off. theres a lot of communications cut off. and most, of course, on top of that, the covid—19 pandemic has also isolated many countries. and also given the, you know, the trade war, the sanctions, the... ..ideological and tax code decoupling and all those thi...

the lawyer who devised the plan to overturn the election. >> mr. eastman, we hardly knew you. >> it always happens, and they always seem so shocked. plus, president biden considers a move to provide a bit of relief at the gas pump, but he needs congress to agree. we also expect more economic data this morning that could offer clues into whether the u.s. is headed toward a recession. also, the crippling labor shortage. the latest industry to feel the pressure, airlines, with more ch...

the head of the agency says he believes russia is strategically reducing supplies now to prevent european countries from stockpiling gas. now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. on the eve of russias february invasion of ukraine, president xi of china and president putin declared their two countries enjoyed a friendship without limits. is that a strategic partnership that beijing may come to regret? my guest is influential chinese thin...

but first, to highly -- this afternoons highly anticipated fifth public hearing of the january 6 committee. well hear testimony from three high ranking justice department officials who led the department in the final days of the trump administration including the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. he will make clear the doj saw no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the election. which unindicated that. and well detail how he and others resisted trumps pressu...

to a western alliance reinvigorated by that ukraine war, are chinas vulnerabilities suddenly in sharperfocus? henry wang, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. its a pleasure to have you on our show. im mindful that you were the founder, the creator of a think tank, the center for china and globalization. you said you wanted it to be a bridge between east and west. right now, it seems many of those bridges are being burned. would you agree? well, i think its... yeah, absolutely. we se...