belarus insists its action fully met international laws. the us secretary of state antony blinken is on his way to the middle east to try and consolidate a ceasefire between hamas and israel. and scientists are using dogs to detect a covid. the dogs are able to sniff the odour respect people with a virus with 94% accuracy. the fallout continues from belarus hijacking a passenger plane and forcing it to land, so they could seize an opposition figure on board. this is in brussels, where eu leaders are meeting now to decide what action to take. we ll be live in brussels shortly with our correspondent nick beake, to find out what sanctions against belarus and its leaders, are being discussed there. but first let s let s recap what happened, and look at the incident, from the start. this the aircraft ryanair plane fr4978. it took off from athens on sunday to the lithuanian capital, vilnius following this route. and just as it was beginning its descent and was about to leave
washington to a number of stalled agenda items and big hurdles ahead and pushing them through congress. on the table for the president, infrastructure, voting rights and police reform. there may be glimmers of hope on some of these big ticket items but there s one major road block, it appears, for the president and other joe, senator joe manchin. let s go to senator lauren fox on capitol hill. i don t know if it s fair to say it s just joe manchin. it may be other democrats, too, that won t fall in line unless joe manchin does. but where are we on these big three big ticket items that the president comes home to? well, i think you make a very strong point here which is that it is not just joe manchin standing in the way of some of these key agenda items. however, joe manchin is very central to one big fight that the president wants to push through. and that is this issue of voting rights. if you remember, democrats on capitol hill are looking to try to vote next week on a b
on how ill-equipped the officers were, only four of the seven response platoons had right gear. and when they needed the national guard, the report says that red tape got in the way. and what the 127 page report does not address, former president trump and his role in the attack. it doesn t even use the word insurrection. whitney wild is joining me now. so what are the biggest takeaways from this report? well, this is solidifying the time line of the day, finally a chance to combine the capitol hill security time lines and department of defense time lines to get a real understanding of how the day unfolded. so there are several example of places along the time line where different decisions could have been made and yet they weren t. and a lot of those decisions actually date back to weeks before the january 6 insurrection. let s talk about operational planning for example. as you point out, a lot of these officers simply didn t have the right deergear, they lacked rio train
welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. my guest is the writer, film maker and activist, tsitsi dangarembga. she is one of zimbabwe s most influential and acclaimed cultural figures. arrested for her political activism, she says her art gives her a platform to call for change. what are the prospects for better days in zimbabwe when everyday life is a struggle? tsitsi dangarembga, in harare, welcome to hardtalk. your latest book, this mournable body, centres on a female character, tambu. is it a personal story, or is it a history of modern zimbabwe? zeinab, i find that my work generally intersects between the personal and the national and the historical, because the national and the historical have a lot to do in determining what the person can do, what a character can do whether this is in real life or in a novel. i do want my work to be realistic or at least, i have done up until now because i have wanted people in zimbabwe and on the continent to engage from a per
is there any chance he would flip again if it would help him politically? good morning, it s tuesday, may 11th. white house correspondent for politico and co-author of the playbook eugene daniels. he s an msnbc contributor. that s quite a mash-up. he flips like a pancake. willie, again, he got on the senate floor rate after the january the 6th, and i m done with this, i m off he was done until he wasn t. and then two people and a chicken are chasing him down washington national airport, and he just he changes overnight and asks if he can start golfing with donald again. i don t get it. it s crazy. that must be a nice golf course down there if he s willing to put himself through all of this to play 18 holes with donald trump. the quote from january 6th. trump and i had a hell of a journey, but enough is enough. lindsey graham declaring himself finished, done with donald trump because of what happened that day at the capitol. and just as you say, he was heck