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what comes next for israel? we re going to discuss with a former member of the knesset. the true story behind the ousting apartments first black president. spoiler alert, it wasn t about plagiarism. we will discuss the conservative effort to get claudine gay removed. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning it is sunday, january the 7th. it is orthodox christmas. i m ali velshi. if you paid any attention at all to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the next three years, there s a good chance you heard the phrase, better than expected. you probably heard it again over the past few days, following the latest report for december. 216,000 net new jobs were created. much better than expected, per cnbc. in the old days, we d say than 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. while every available job is not matched to every available job seeker, mathematically, america has ....
an abundance of fish. but in recent years, he and thousands like him have been asking, where are they? this is the tonle sap, south east asia s largest freshwater lake. fish caught by communities here feed millions across cambodia. translation: these past few years, there is less and less i water and fewer and fewer fish. i didn t expect to get a lot of fish because when i felt the weight of the net, it was very light. i felt right around it and ijust couldn t feel many fish. if they were there, i would feel them splashing around. this is not the catch mi and his family need. this is all they have to eat for four or five days. so how difficult is it for you to earn a living byjust fishing? translation: when we were just married and we had no children, l it was ok. but now, we have children, and every day, i need to send them to school. every morning, i need around $5 to pay for school. and these days, i have no income. it s taken four or five days, and that s all i ge ....
ending child marriage. we ve been invited to their first field trip together, and they ve come to ludzi secondary school in malawi. when i was your age, there were people in my community that didn t think a girl like me, who didn t have money or wealth or connections, could do the things that i did. i even had my second form teacher tell me that i shouldn t apply to the colleges i applied to because she didn t think i could get in. so i ignored her and i applied to princeton. i got in and i went to law school and became a lawyer. and i ve worked at a university, i ve run an ngo, i ve done all sorts of things. so i know that there are so many girls like all of us all over the world where people are underestimating them. they re telling us what we can t do. and i refuse. you know, i see my daughters in those girls. you know, we tend to think that poverty and people who are disadvantaged, it looks like a certain. ..it has a certain look. it s a corrugated roof. it s a mud ....
to this cultural life. thank you. on this cultural life, i ask my guests to reflect on the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity. you were born and raised in chelsea in new york city in the late 50s and the 60s? yes. what are your earliest cultural memories as a child? you re talking about a little kid, i m a little kid? the most important thing to me was that the people around me, again, the people around me never said, you can t do this. so you want to know what the inspiration was? it was my mother. cos my mother said, if that s what you want to do, sure, let s find out how to do it. what about school? what sort of pupil were you? i was not a great pupil. i was dyslexic. i am dyslexic. but didn t know at the time? at the time, no. they just thought i was just being lazy. my mum didn t think i wasjust being lazy, shejust didn t. she said, i don t know what it is, but, you know, it s ok. and so she didn t allow people ....
welcome to the programme. thousands of people are being evacuated in southern ukraine, where the destruction of the russian controlled nova kakhovka dam has caused extensive flooding. but it s uncertain who is responsible. joining me on my panel tonight for the next hour, will be gillian tett, editor at large, us financial times. and nathalie tocci director for institute of international affairs rome. also tonight: prince harry has been in court. accusing mirror group newspapers of hacking into his voicemails when he was a teenager. the new liv golf tour threatened to split the world of golf. now it s going to merge with the existing pga tour. what does it mean for the game? and he used to tell people to vote for donald trump now he s running against him for the republican presidential nomination. we ll weigh up the white house chances of chris christie. we start in ukraine. and let s begin with that breaking news in the last hour that a us official has told the bbc ....