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some made their way through the narrow alleys of an arab neighbourhood, waving flags and chanting slogans. the palestinian red cross said more than 70 people were injured in clashes. now on bbc news stephen sackur is in washington with hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from washington. i'm stephen sackur. the received political wisdom here is that economic issues pretty much decide elections, and that may be true in this midterm election year because of a dramatic spike in the cost of living. and yet, there is a sense here that right now, values and culture are at the centre of the polit...

my guest today is danica roem, a democrat and the first transgender person to take a seat in a state legislature. what does her story tell us about america's culture wars? danica roem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much. it's good to see you. it's great to have you on the show. now, when you won your election back in 2017 to become a state legislator in virginia... mm—hm. ..you were seen across america as a trailblazer. do you still feel like that trailblazer? well, so, here's the thing. i don't try to put, you know, that title to myself. when other people ascribe it to me, tha...

Existence is wrong, that's fine for you to think, but 12,077 people i represent disagreed with you when they elected me to be their state legislator in 2017 and then i earned re—election in 2019 and 2021. absolutely. so three elections, all of them successful. yeah. here you sit as a virginia state legislator. and we can go beyond your personal story and we can look at the united states. we can look at landmark supreme court rulings which have backed the lgbtq community's right to workplace protections. we can look at legalisation of same—sex marriage and the massive change in public opini...