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ranging widely from the middle east to chelsea manning s prison sentence to voting rights and beyond. his successor has promised to dismantle his legacy, and barack obama was asked what he d told his daughters about donald trump s victory. he said i tell them the only thing that is the end of the world is the end of the world. i think we re going to be ok. he wished the press good luck. our north america editor, jon sopel, was there. for one last time, barack obama came to the white house briefing room to joust with the press. good afternoon, everybody. but amid reports that his successor wants to limit access and regularly accuses journalists of being dishonest and liars, the outgoing president spoke of the importance of a strong and free media. you re not supposed to be sycophants, you re supposed to be sceptics. you re supposed to ask me tough questions. you are not supposed to be complimentary but you are supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous ....
..mario? it s a me, mario! woohoo! driving stateside can be a liberating experience. wide roads, big trucks, massive cars, but at a desert bottleneck like las vegas, it can be ever so slightly frustrating. beep, beep! come on. but today i am driving an audi with a little more brainpower under the hood, sorry, bonnet. there is extra information about the current speed on it, and it also is telling me there is a red light that will turn green in about 30 seconds up ahead. three, two, one. here we go. the car is connected to las vegas‘s traffic management centre over ag. it reports its position and the centre tells them how long until the next light turns green. indicate left, and the centre informs me about the left light instead. and round we go. one of the advantages, says audi, is that it is a bit of a stress and tension relief as you know you have some time before the light goes green so there is no point getting impatient. at the moment, this is only available in c ....
president obama has held his final news conference in the white house ranging widely from the middle east to chelsea manning s prison sentence to voting rights and beyond. his successor has promised to dismantle his legacy, and barack obama was asked what he d told his daughters about donald trump s victory. he said i tell them the only thing that is the end of the world is the end of the world. i think we re going to be ok. he wished the press good luck. our north america editor, jon sopel was there. for one last time, barack obama came to the white house briefing room to joust with the press. good afternoon, everybody. but amid reports that his successor wants to limit access and regularly accuses journalists of being dishonest and liars, the outgoing president spoke of the importance of a strong and free media. you re not supposed to be sycophants, you re supposed to be sceptics. you re supposed to ask me tough questions. you are not supposed to be complimentary ....
i m stephen sackur. for 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital, vladimir putin. externally, he s projected russian power from ukraine to syria and internally, opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. but not altogether. my guest today is the most prominent leader of russia s anti putin opposition, alexey navalny. now he has committed to fighting putin in the 2018 presidential election but will his defiance cost him dear? alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me here. you have been involved in opposition politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now your position is perhaps more dispiriting, more depressing than it s ever been before. would you agree? absolutely not. actually, ironically, i can call vladimir putin as my godfather in politics. because when he came to power and the way he talks and what he s saying, what he s doing, the laws ....
to engulf south korea s biggest company. troops are massing on the border of the gambia, in west africa, ready to force the president to accept his defeat in the election and step down. yayahjameh s successor is supposed to be inaugurated today, but the president has refused to leave office, and declared a state of emergency. west african leaders have given neighbouring senegal a mandate to intervene militarily if necessary, on wednesday, gambia s parliament passed a resolution allowing presidentjammeh to stay in office for another three months. greg dawson has the latest. these could be the final moments of president jammeh s power over the country. this president flew in in a last minute effort to stop it developing into a crisis. we will work on a peaceful solution. it is in the interest of everyone, gambia, everyone. he immediately left for negotiations in senegal, one of several west african nations ordering him to leave office or face a military invasion. the gamb ....