and play scottish traditional music. and of course he left school at the age of 1a and immediately started working on farms, and he was the youngest of 13. my mother, on the other hand, she could read music, but she didn t have a very good ear, so in a way it was the opposite. and i remember when she told the story whereby she was asked to play in the village, or if she would help out for the village church and play the organ there, because she was really kind of the only one who could maybe play a few hymns. and she said, oh, no, i really don t want to be doing this i m far too busy, and so on. and. but they pleaded with her and she said, well, i lljust do one sunday , and 36 years later she was still there. i went to a primary school that had 36 pupils in the entire school and two teachers, so it was a tiny, tiny country school, but every friday a music teacher would come in and we would be given a general music lesson. so by the time we left primary school at the age
a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the 6th of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful tremor hours later increased the death toll even further. i was one of the firstjournalists to reach the epicentre, travelling through the devastation towards the city of kahramanmaras and broadcasting from my phone. this was one of my first live reports. what we re talking about here in maras, right at the epicentre of the quake, is notjust single individual collapsed buildings, we re talking about whole city blocks. when i arrived here, we drove down a street and the whole of one side nine, ten, 11 buildings had just completely collapsed. the red cross estimates that more than 55,000 people were killed in turkey and syria, with double t
welcome to this special year ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. it s our chance to look back on some of the most telling and compelling encounters of 2023. how will this past year be remembered? well, a grim new phase in an intractable conflict will loom large. on october the 7th, hamas the islamist group which controls gaza and is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the uk and the us launched a murderous attack on southern israel. 1,200 israelis were killed. israel s response was a ferocious assault on gaza, now in its third month, which has already inflicted tens of thousands of palestinian casualties. we cannot guarantee 100% safety for the people in gaza who will be around hamas militants. and that s why i keep saying, move out, move out from those neighbourhoods, because we are coming to hunt down hamas and we will do whatever is necessary from the air, from the sea, from the land. we will get to those people and we will kill them. you cannot d
haunted me. why didn t her british husband report her missing? i tracked him down to question him. mr armitage! yeah? did you kill your wife? mr armitage. .. i replied to your e mail, 0k? this is the first time buathong is visiting the place where her cousin was found. in 2004, walkers came across her half naked body here in this remote place. it was buathong who recognised a police drawing of her in a bbc story, finally identifying the body as 36 year old lamduan armitage seekany. for 15 years, she was just known as the lady of the hills. no one in the uk had reported her missing. at first, police didn t believe her death was suspicious. it wasn t until 2016, more than a decade after she was found, that the case was reopened after a police review. they now believe she was killed. the lack of any form of identification, with a body taken away from the local habitation, would suggest that somebody is trying to hide her, to conceal the fact that she s dead, at least for a while
hi there, thank you for being with hi there, thank you for being with us israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the military will deepen its fight against hamas in the coming days. his comments come despite the us urging israel to lower the intensity of its strikes. and these images show the aftermath of an air strike on the al maghazi refugee camp which reportedly killed more than 70 people. israel says it is investigating. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says at least 250 people have been killed in the last 2a hours. meanwhile, in bethlehem in the occupied west bank, christmas celebrations were muted because of the ongoing conflict. shaimaa khalil sent this report which some viewers may find distressing. crowd chants: achshav! achshav! heckled by the families of the hostages. achshav now they chant, a demand for the immediate release of their loved ones. benjamin netanyahu reiterates the only way to get them back was to keep fighting and that t