Covid spread and test requirements and Staff Shortages as well. And some parents just opting to keep their kids home. Thousands of travelers still trying to get back home after a week of Staff Shortages from new covid cases leaves airlines, tsa, and support personnel shorthanded. Planes grounded complicated by a new winter storm already hitting the midatlantic and moving up the coast towards the northeast. One flight not grounded today, air force one, President Biden arriving at joint base andrews. It is hard to see him. Midmorning that was about an hour and a half ago amid swirling winds, accumulating snow from a Holiday Break that he had in delaware. The president s holiday was interrupted by a call to reassure ukraines president zelensky after an hourlong call with Vladimir Putin who still has 100,000 troops along ukraines border. Washington is preparing for the First Anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. The commemoration at the capitol will include a speech from the preside
Nitin sawhney, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lovely to be here. Its great to have you. Let me begin by getting into your life during this Covid Pandemic that weve all lived through. You are known as a musician who takes an international approach to music making. Of course, during lockdown across the world, thats not been possible, so what has covid done to your creativity . Its been interesting because, like a lot of people, we found well, i found new ways of exploring that. So, i mean, Iwas Working With Musicians internationally still, i mean, for example, i managed to do a concert online with Ashwin Srinivasan who was in india we did that for the Cheltenham Jazz Festival last year, and id tried to collaborate with people even through zoom and different ways of doing that. So you can sync up a performance through zoom and do it live . Not quite, because ive gone into using, you know, final cut pro, which is a so id cut things together sometimes in a way that they looked live, and th
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Many of us have an inclination to categorise artists. Its an easy, maybe a lazy way, of signalling where we think they fit in the creative universe. But my guest today defies labels. Nitin sawhney s creative output is dizzying. Hes a musician brought up in an indian family in britain who fuses different musical traditions. And on top of that, he writes film scores, he djs, promotes various cultural initiatives oh, and he was a successful comedian, too. So what are the Common Threads in this prolific creativity . Nitin sawhney, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lovely to be here. Its great to have you. Let me begin by getting into your life during this Covid Pandemic that weve all lived through. You are known as a musician who takes an international approach to music making. Of course, during lockdown across the world, thats not been possible, so what has covid done to your creativity . Its been in
With stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Many of us have an inclination to categorise artists. Its an easy, maybe a lazy way, of signalling where we think they fit in the creative universe. But my guest today defies labels. Nitin sawhney s creative output is dizzying. Hes a musician brought up in an indian family in britain who fuses different musical traditions. And on top of that, he writes film scores, he djs, promotes various cultural initiatives oh, and he was a successful comedian, too. So what are the Common Threads in this prolific creativity . Nitin sawhney, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lovely to be here. Its great to have you. Let me begin by getting into your life during this Covid Pandemic that weve all lived through. You are known as a musician who takes an international approach to music making. Of course, during lockdown across the world, thats not been possible, so what has covid done to your creativity . Its been interesting because, like a lot o
Rana ayyub in mumbai, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me, stephen. Its a pleasure having you on the show. At the last count, and its a little confusing, but the last count, i think you are now facing four different legal actions. Given the legal constraints upon you right now, has your voice, in effect, been silenced . Well, thats the intention, stephen, to silence my voice. Unfortunately, the government has not been victorious on that count. Neither has it been victorious over the last 15 years of myjournalism, when it has literally tried every tool in the book to silence my voice and myjournalism. At this point of time, four cases, two by Uttar Pradesh police, one by the income tax department, one by the enforcement directorate, and im hoping many more to go, because thats the cost of speaking truth to power in india at a time when journalism and mainstream journalists in india are self censoring themselves. But ive seen some reports suggesting your legal team have