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powerful republican in the senate is open to raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21. he has said that in private, but mitch mcconnell has not and wont, it seems, say it in public. it is highly unlikely that it will be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks intensify between democrats and republicans. two weeks ago republican senate cynthia lieu mass of wyoming said she doubted any ideas to curb gun violence would be welcomed in her pro-gun state bu...

states capitol. that means pretty much every cable news channel and three major broadcast networks will be providing wall-to-wall coverage, everyone except fox news which will stick with its regularly scheduled programming of tucker carlson, sean hannity and laura ingraham rick they are demoting their coverage to the much watched business channel. the primetime hosts will cover the events as news warrants. the networks decision might help avoid some awkwardness more thanity an ingraham...

he met with after the mass shooting and the victims of another preventable tragedy, this time in his hometown. watch. >> uvalde, texas, is where i was born. its where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a disy bb gun. took two years before i graduated to a 410 shotgun. uvalde is where i was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun. uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. w...

have been hampering efforts to extinguish the blaze. officials say the fire has killed at least forty nine people and injured hundreds, near the eastern city of chittagong. now on bbc news, its click. this week we are live at the hay festival for 100 years of the bbc in 23 minutes. well look at the secrets behind the broadcasting technologies that changed the world. a radio legend talks about legendary radio. i used to set my watch by the pips, and my favourite pip is always the last o...

embarrassed to admit they watch television. >> hello. >> people used to say i was there. now they say i watch it on television. ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. >> happy new year! >> as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape nine out of ten watching one of only three networks. >> more than 30 million people are aducked to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? its telev...

>> this room and the next contain my archives. its magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything relating to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. >> the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. >> were not on the road to fascism, but were dangerously close to it. >> these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. >> i told...

by the pips, and my favourite pip is always the last one because its extended. and artificial intelligence goes bird spotting and in the quest for greener energy, omar discovers a tasteless fluid cold water. —— called it water. it goes in your mouth and then disappears? this book was... writing this much... we are back and its brilliant. after an unbelievable three years, the hay festival is back to its full glory. gathering together authors and thinkers, bookworms and those with t...

between the brake pedal and the braking system failing. now on bbc news, its time for click. this week we are live at the hay festival for 100 years of the bbc in 23 minutes. well look at the secrets behind the broadcasting technologies that changed the world. a radio legend talks about legendary radio. i used to set my watch by the pips, and my favourite pip is always the last one because its extended. and artificial intelligence goes bird spotting and in the quest for greener energy,...

back — and this year especially is a really special year. not only is the queen celebrating 70 years on the throne, but the bbc is celebrating 100 years on air. and so, we thought wed put on a show... spencer kelly! ..to talk about some of the technologies the beeb has been instrumental in developing. we talked sound and vision with our brilliant panel. and kind of place sounds around this microphone... in 1922, the ideas that the bbc had to make programming that would inform, entert...

and kind of place sounds around this microphone... in 1922, the idea is that the bbc had to make programming that would inform, entertain and educate the world. and because it was a public broadcaster, it kind of had quite a lot of freedom to decide what programming could be developed but also, it meant that they developed their own technologies to be able to make such a wide range of programmes for the biggest audiences. and, of course, way before television came radio, and what do yo...