enough seats to form a majority government. now on bbc news: it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. the united states is a secular republic, there is no state religion. but many americans have nonetheless come to see their country as a beacon of muscular christian values. my guest today is franklin graham, a christian evangelist with a nationwide following and influence to match. his father, billy, was perhaps the most famous evangelist of them all, but franklin has taken the family ministry in a more political direction why? and from abortion to gay marriage, is he deepening america s divisions? franklin graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your family name is synonymous with preaching, with evangelism. you ve been at it for, what, four decades and more. as you look at your own country, america, today. how do you feel about its moral and spiritual health? i think morally, no question, our nation is in great decline. the world is, mor
taken the family ministry in a more political direction why? and from abortion to gay marriage, is he deepening america s divisions? franklin graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. yourfamily name is synonymous with preaching, with evangelism. you ve been at it for, what, four decades and more. as you look at your own country, america, today. how do you feel about its moral and spiritual health? i think morally, no question, our nation is in great decline. the world is, morally. and it s one of these things that we see. but we don t we don t get discouraged. we keep preaching the truth. and the truth is that god loves us, that he cares for us, that he s sent his son from heaven to this earth to take our sins. he didn t come to condemn us, he came to save us. and this is a message that we preach to every generation. why are you so convinced that you are living through an era of moral decline? just watch the news, and you see the moral decline all around us. of course, churc
He said kristy has been murdered. She was taken so soon and so violently. I could not stop shaking. A young teacher leaving for i school, murdered before she could get out the door. This was a horrific scene. It was a nightmare scene. She had christmas presents she was taking to her students that they. I was petrified. I r thought who . Why . We looked at suspect after af suspect. We are still with no answer. This poor family. We thought we could solve this case. Could cuttingedge science reveal a clue . It was someone they did not have a reason to look at or talk to before. He was here the whole time. You were literally talking to her killer. Evil comes in all packages. It certainly does. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Kristy always knew she wanted to be a teacher, and her enthusiasm showed. Colleagues marveled at her way with kids. Her life was cut tragically short and investigators efficiently hit a dead end. Decades later, a crash course in dna analysis gave them a picture of kris
You think . I thought it was a heart attack, i thought somebody had a heart attack. I thought somebody had a heart atta attack. I cant do this. Im feeling really sick. Can you tell us when you saw him stop, what happened . Oh, man. I stopped, he was going, he was going on i was shaking, i couldnt deal with this, he kept going people were getting hit, one after the other. I saw people getting hit one by one. Where did you see him climb the sidewalk . Right on the sidewalk. Where did he get on the sidewalk . He started from around here. Its the first one, started over there. Oh, my god, wow i cant do this any more, im sorry. Thank you so much for that. Ali was about 100 meters away. This is incredibly difficult to listen to these different eyewitnesss, describe what has amounted to a gruesome scene in toronto. Careening down the sidewalk. Were going to come back to this in a moment. That waffle house suspect is in custody. Theyre about to brief the press on how they got him. At 1 07 this
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