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dancers. alexei ratmansky is a world renowned choreographer with roots in both russia and ukraine, once director of the bolshoi ballet in moscow, and now putting on a special production of gisele with the united ukrainian ballet to show the world ukrainian culture lives on. has ballet become a battleground? alexei ratmansky, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, an honour to be here. you hardtalk. thank you very much, an honour to be here. an honour to be here. you are here in london an honour to be here. you are here in london because - an honour to be here. you are here in london because you i here in london because you mounting this extraordinary set of performances of gisele. performed by ukrainian dancers. can you go about putting on how can you go about putting on a performance with ukrainians when their country is at war? there was an extraordinary project, it started in march, i received a call from my friend in holland, she is a former principal ballerin ....
queen elizabeth ii. those are the headlines on bbc news. you are watching bbc news. now on bbc news, amol rajan interviews ian hislop. even by recent standards, 2022 has been a tumultuous year in news. russia launched a war in europe. her late majesty queen elizabeth ii died just months after her platinum jubilee. and britain went through three prime ministers and even more chancellors. one man who s tried to make sense of it is ian hislop, whether on tv or as editor of private eye s fortnightly magazine and latest annual. i visited his office for a conversation not just about recent news, but also why it s been a turn off for some and why we need proper journalism more than ever. ian, thank you so much for talking to me and to bbc news. let s start, if you re happy to, with a few kind of reflections on this year, because in recent years the news agenda has often felt pretty crazy. yeah. ..and overwhelming, but this year, even more than most, we ve had war in europe, th ....
there after. i saw either a car correspondent or regular guest, i think on msnbc or cnn, she said to the coast, the constitution does not serve our purposes any more, it was written by a handful of white slave owners, that is what you get from the marxist left. what is in the constitution? due process. free speech. freedom of religion. right to bear arms. the right to be protected in your home. probable cause. all kinds of protections for the individual. what else? limitations on government. limitations on congress, limitations on the presidency, limitations on the courts. we don t have a kind of totalitarian regime centralized in one place. which is what the founders fought against. what else? we have all kinds of things in the constitution that promote what we call the civil society. law and order, protecting the individual. these people who wrote the constitution and adopted the constitution most of them were people of faith, most of them were learned even though the ....
hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after 2 months of campaigning, and 8 initial candidates whittled down to 2, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy is resilient. how will they handle soaring inflation? i borisjohnson s ejection from office injuly triggered a stampede of wannabe successors. tory mps had the job of picking two final candidates. s ....
how did we get here? well, the war in iraq went sideways and there were never any wmds. katrina exposed how unprepared we were for natural disasters. and then a great recession cooked up by bankers left the country in a huge hole. and not a single one of these crooks went to jail for it. we re losing faith in our institutions because they keep failing us. and in other cases these institutions are being destroyed on purpose. a new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the police. this started in ferguson. they told us an unarmed black man was killed by a police officer while he had his hands up. remember? the riots over hands up, don t shoot? turns out it was a hoax. then george floyd s death created the defund the police movement that caused the a crime wave. even less, americans trust the medical system. people don t like getting billed by insurance monopolies and we don t like being drugs we don t need by doctors who are compensated by drug co ....