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The game he loved. >> people sometimes talk about having premonitions of things. did you have anything like that adult? >> it was just another day, just another one of my countless baseball games. countless baseball games. >> president of course. though no one knew it, as they wild their we threw a golden afternoon. reading, california, with its famous sundial bridge, its parks, its middle america feel. its a whole different place, a different life, then the california whose reputations blurs te...

Chicagos mayor condemned what she called her city legacy of police violence and misconduct, leaving its residents, especially those who are black and brown, as she put it, in a constant state of fear and pain. mark lobel, bbc news. and we will be speaking to a chicago chronicles journalist soon. lets get some of the days other news. brazils supreme court has annulled the corruption convictions of the left—wing former president, luiz inacio lula da silva. lula will now be able to run in next ye...

Lets get some of the days other news. the japanese prime minister yoshihide suga has arrived in america ahead of becoming the first foreign leader to be hosted by us presidentjoe biden at the white house on friday. the two countries are aligned on the need to counter chinas influence. three united nations human rights experts have expressed deep regret overjapan�*s decision to dump into the sea a million tons of treated radioactive water from the stricken fukushima nuclear power plant. china h...

To reason about all the extraordinary things that can happen on a road thats got nothing to do with driving. superhuman in their ability to concentrate and never, ever, ever get distracted. to see in ways that humans dont see with radar and laser, to sense distance. extraordinary things. and above all, the ability for these vehicles to share and acquire competencies, not because of their own experience but because of the experience of other vehicles everywhere else in the world. thats an extraor...

Done, because its not. this is not a solved problem. this is a hard problem. it is many years before you can buy a car that has no steering wheel, and you can say i will have a car with no windscreen and it has the same functionality as your car does now. to start with, they will have subhuman capacity and superhuman capacity in other things. subhuman in their ability to reason about all the extraordinary things that can happen on a road thats got nothing to do with driving. superhuman in their ...

Finance? >> well, both, for the president to start off with tax increases who knows thats a non-starter for most republicans. >> reporter: senator brown and other democrats say majority of americans support raising tactics but above all wants congress to act. >> it is the bill thats going to need the crying needs of generation of rebuilding our country. >> reporter: it is a critical test not only for bidens agenda but for the governments delivery on its promises. now more than twice as many cros...

And appointed one of its most senior politicians, john kerry, as its climate envoy. glasgow will be extremely important. in fact, i would say that in myjudgement, it is the last best chance the world has to come together in order to do the things we need to do to avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis. in the run—up to the glasgow conference in november, weve asked some delegates from around the world to give us their thoughts on what they want it to achieve. for us in the caribbea...

The eisenhower era has aged out. bridges are collapsing. americans are tired of potholes, tired of water they cant drink. theyre way ahead of congress on this. we can argue forever about how you pay for it. weve got to get this done. its been put off for too long. we can rebuild it, resilient to climate change. we can electrify it to deal with fossil fuel pollutes. we can deal with issues of equity, which the president has emphasized and rejoin neighborhoods that were split asunder. and the mino...

Only uk residents will be allowed in from red countries, and they will need to pay for quarantine at a hotel, as well as taking the tests. this is a new testing centre set up at luton airport. the company behind it is expanding its capacity at other airports, too. tests will still need to be paid for by the passenger and they can be expensive. what we are hopeful for is we will start to see, as more countries get vaccinated, as that risk of infection reduces, that actually the number of tests yo...

Allow us to operate. i tend to spend a lot of my time out on the water between the tours here, dinghy sailing, paraboating, all of that has just stopped, its just not happened. its been difficult. with different parts of the uk opening up at different rates, some companies have expressed concern about their ability to attract staycationers. following announcements made last week, forth boat tours plan to open up again at the end of april, when it is still uncertain whether scotland will permit n...