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streets under siege, a dramatic outpouring of anger, after a 17—year—old, nahel, was killed by police during a traffic stop. many of the rioters are teenagers, out despite a plea from frances president to parents to keep their children at home. as the protests have intensified, so too has the police presence. across the country from friday into saturday morning, more than 115,000 officers were deployed stop and it is the police thatis deployed stop and it is the police that is driv...

paul caruana galizia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you here and, indeed, also a pleasure to read your book. youve just published it — a death in malta: an assassination and a familys quest forjustice, you call it. youve worked on this book for a long time. it is six years since your mother was murdered. working on the book, do you feel you have come to understand her in a new way? a different way? yes. so the funny thing about t...

like nothing else in my life. good morning from edgbaston ahead of the second day of an ashes series thats so far lived up to all the hype. a brilliant century from joe root and brave battling by england helped them to nearly 400 before they turned the pressure onto australia, with this opening test intriguingly poised. and ian wright, ken bruce and davina mccall are among those in the kings first birthday honours list. it will feel increasingly humid this weekend when the sun is out b...

who lost loved ones to the illness, or suffered with it themselves. the inquiry began last year, but today is the first public hearing, with evidence expected to be heard for at least three years. covid has been included on the death certificates of more than 225,000 people in the uk. with more details, heres our health correspondent catherine burns. headlines for you at six oclock this morning. nine dead and more than 400 infected with a mystery new virus in china. for many, this feel...

a hundred and fifty two of the parliamentary seats declared so far, a simple majority. this will give the sheikh hasina her fourth consecutive term as prime minister, and herfifth overall. the election was boycotted by bangladeshs main opposition party, the bnp, which said the process wasa sham. our south asia correspondent samira hussain has been monitoring events for us in dhaka. the results of these elections come as no real surprise. prime minister sheikh hasina was all but guarant...

thank you. a great pleasure to have you here. you have just written a book, power and progress, which goes through the impacts of some of the great technological shifts in human history over the past millennium. would you say that artificial intelligence, the supremacy of the algorithm, represents one of those transformational moments for humankind? im not sure that it does. but there is a fair chance that it will have transformative effects. it is all commonplace to compare it to the ...

this week... is it a boat or is it a plane? im onboard the ferry that can fly. why has nobody made an electric hydrofoil flying ferry before? i think the main reason is that its freaking hard. were in india, where solar dryers are battling food waste. and an eye in the sky on energy use. nice outfit, by the way. thanks. ive been taking the temperature with the worlds thermometer to assess the climate impact of all our actions. stockholm, capital of sweden, and a city of islands, 1a of ...

couldnt i sit farther back? sir anthony hopkins playing an ordinary man with an extraordinary story. sir nicholas winton was just 29 in 1938 when he embarked on a campaign to bring hundreds of refugee children from prague to london. for 50 years, he didnt talk about his efforts until they were revealed by the bbc tv programme thats life. if they hadnt been rescued and brought over to england, these children would have been killed by the nazis. im the bbc�*s culture editor, katie razz...

from tony blair to rishi sunak, ifelt like humming the tune of ghostbusters! who are you going to call? louise casey! why you? how did this happen? i dont really know, actually. i dont know. i started offjust working in charities with homeless people and then all our dreams came true when somebody said, we want to reduce the number of people sleeping on the streets by two thirds, we will set a target, we are serious and i got thatjob. and i suppose i am pretty fearless. and pretty dete...

the perfect look. but beneath the surface lies a murkier side. for every pristine peak, broken boards and piles of cheap polystyrene dumped on our beaches. its really disheartening to see this amount of waste come forward. surfers may enjoy the fresh sea air, but the industry relies on toxic chemicals, producing suits and boards derived from oil. and living that dream of being at one with nature is getting more and more difficult. we do want to encourage people to get outdoors, but at ...