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oren liebermann at the pentagon. let's go arlette at the white house. >> reporter: president biden offered his first comments on the situation regarding that chinese spy balloon just moments ago, saying they are prepared to take care of it. president biden has been receiving briefings since tuesday, including potential options relating to how they could address this. here is how he answered reporters' questions moments ago. you heard president biden say we are going to take care of it. officials here at the white house say the president is consistently being briefed on the various op...

oppression are stronger. my guest today is kenneth roth, just retired after 30 years leading the campaign group human rights watch. he's been banned in a host of countries. is it time to acknowledge his brand of human rights campaigning isn't working? kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it's good to be with you. it's good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world's highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat? no, not at all....

declared in five regions, including auckland. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. across the world, freedom and democracy are in retreat. almost a third of the world's people live under authoritarian rule. that number is rising and that has grave implications for basic human rights. it's not that liberal democracies can't be abusive of rights, but generally their safeguards against oppression are stronger. my guest today is kenneth roth, just retired after 30 years leading the campaign group human rights watch. he's been banned in a host of countries. ...

good evening and welcome to "the next revolution". when i was a kid most summers we would drive across europe to hungary to sputter vacation with my family it took a couple of days and as i stared out the window i noticed the near we got to the iron curtain and we got inside communist hungry, i noticed more cars with this on the back ddr it stood for german democratic republic, this is before german unification, there were two germanys but the german democratic republic was not west germany but actually was a democracy. it was with the communist dictators in east germany called their...

good evening and welcome to "the next revolution". when i was a kid most summers we would drive across europe to hungary to sputter vacation with my family it took a couple of days and as i stared out the window i noticed the near we got to the iron curtain and we got inside communist hungry, i noticed more cars with this on the back ddr it stood for german democratic republic, this is before german unification, there were two germanys but the german democratic republic was not west germany but actually was a democracy. it was with the communist dictators in east germany called their...