greg doran. why do we continue to make much ado about william shakespeare? gregory doran, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. nice to be here. well, it s a real pleasure to be on your stage here at the royal shakespeare company. you first set foot on this stage 35 years ago. idid. in fact, this month, it s 50 years since i saw my first show at the rsc, which was eileen atkins in as you like it. and my mum had packed us all into the back of her beige mini and we had come down from preston, and i saw the show and i was just completely blown away. and apparently i said to my mum on the way back, that s what i want to do when i grow up. so i must have grown up. and you are one of those people who achieved your ambition, your dream, because for the last ten years, you ve been artistic director here. that s right. 35 years in total with the rsc, the royal shakespeare company. it s coming to an end. how big a wrench is it going to be? oh, it s going to be. well, i hope not to sever my
in the us, the conspiracy theorist alexjones has filed for bankruptcy. it comes less than 2 months after courts ordered the far right podcast host to pay close to $1.5 billion in damages to the families whose children died in a school mass shooting. 0ur correspondent nomia iqbal is in washington. yes, this is a man who has made a career out of promoting really paranoid allegations against the us government. he is very right wing media commentator who came out of the obscurity of public access tv here in america to become this man who really indulges in these conspiracy theories. one of the theories that he has been promoting for a long, long time is to do with the sandy hook elementary school shooting that happened back in 2012, it is the worst mass school shooting in american history. 26 people were killed, mainly kids.
in the long term through climate change work and in the short term, now, going to the aid of desperate people and saving lives. can the british government really make an impact in places like this, when its budget forforeign aid remains cut? it is probably not money that is the key issue here, it is coordination and making sure that everyone else steps up to the plate alongside britain to deliver for people here who, as i say, are in danger of dying in very large numbers if the international community does not react properly. a british minister coming here can make a difference. he can promise a bit more money. he can focus the attention of a world distracted by other crises. but can he stop the fighting? can he slow the climate change that many believe is at the root of this problem? james landale, bbc news, in western somalia. in the us, the conspiracy theorist alexjones has filed for bankruptcy. it comes less than two months
another u turn? the british prime minister insists she won t cut public spending, to pay for her multibillion pound package of tax cuts. and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we will do everything we can as fast as we can to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. and scientists in australia teach lab grown brain cells to play an iconic video game. we find out how and why. live from our studio in singapore. hello and welcome to the programme. ajury in the us has ordered the conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of victims of the sandy hook massacre. mrjones falsely claimed