james webb telescope. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the funeral ofjapan s former prime minister, shinzo abe, will start in the coming hours following his assasination on friday. mr abe was shot at a campaign event in naru. mourners have streamed into a temple in tokyo to pay their respects. these are scenes from a vigil at the zojoji temple. world leaders have also paid tribute. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, said mr abe did more than anyone to elevate the relationship between their two countries. rupert wingfield hayes reports from tokyo. shinzo abe was a fresh faced 52 year old when he shocked everyone by becoming japan s youngest postwar prime minister. it did not go well. and in less than a year, he was gone. five years later, he plotted his return with a new hairstyle and a new slogan. and this time, he stayed, for eight years, longer than any other postwar japanese leader. today, japan is laying mr abe to rest. his life snuff
most detailed view of the universe to date, containing light from galaxies that s taken billions of years to reach us. the week ahead will bring very high temperatures in parts of the uk and the met office has issued an extreme weather warning for next weekend. yesterday temperatures reached 32 degrees in some parts with southern england the worst affected region. health heat alerts were issued across the south, the midlands and eastern parts of england. people have been advised to stay indoors where possible and drink plenty of water. as our climate editor justin rowlatt reports, this type of extreme weather is likely to become more familiar in future. in case you haven t noticed, it is hot, very hot. wales recorded its hottest day of the year, 28.6 c, influential. in temperatures soared in england as well. lovely if you can get to the beach or to a pool but the truth is, most of us can t. do you mind if i put a hat on, do you mind if i puta hat on, my do you mind if i put a
an influential writer and academic who argues the only way to not be racist is to be actively anti racist a message he says children must hear. is his approach bound to intensify america s internal conflict? ibram x kendi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on. it s a pleasure to have you here. your focus right now seems to be on children, and your contention that children, very young children even, should be told about racism, even if it s not a daily reality that they are actually living with. why? because unfortunately, studies are showing that it is a daily reality that they re living with. one study found that kids as early as three years old have what one scholar called an adult like concept of race . they re already attaching skin colour to behaviours like who s smart, who s clean, and even who s honest. and so, if we re not teaching children to not connect skin colour to behaviour, to recognise that, you know, someone s skin colour is not a reflection of
on the baltic coast. after the floods, the struggle to reach millions of people affected by the rising waters in bangladesh and north east india. and, the hearing into last month s mass school shooting in texas, is told the police could have stopped the gunman after three minutes, but officers put their own lives before the children s. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. threats, intimidation and unbearable pressure. this was the story of the latest congressional hearings investigating alleged attempts by donald trump and his allies to overturn the election result of 2020. and those claims came from republican officials, some of whom spoke of mr trump s direct involvement. three state officials delivered often emotional testimony, revealing the intense pressure they were under. the hearing also heard from poll workers, who said they had been falsely accused of carrying out a fake ballot scheme to skew the vote, which had led to them facing intimidat
her half a million dollars in damages. tensions rise between russia and lithuania following a ban on the transport of goods to the russian territory of kaliningrad on the baltic coast. after the floods the struggle to reach millions of people affected by the rising waters in bangladesh and north east india. thanks forjoining us. threats, intimidation and unbearable pressure. this was the story of the latest congressional hearings investigating alleged attempts by donald trump and his allies to overturn the election result of 2020. and those claims came from republican officials, some of whom spoke of mr trump s direct involvement. the hearing also heard from election workers, who said they had been falsely accused of carrying out a fake ballot scheme to skew the vote, which had led to them facing intimidation and death threats. we have various groups come by, and they have had, um, video panel trucks with videos of me, proclaiming me to be a paedophile and a pervert, and a