Steven mcrae, welcome to hardtalk. We re here at the royal ballet and opera in london, which has been your professional home for many years now, and you re about to go back on stage as the mad hatter in alice s adventures in wonderland. Tell me first how this adventure began for you, the world of ballet. Because you grew up far away from here. Yes. So i grew up in the outskirts of sydney, australia. Probably the furthest you could possibly get from the royal opera house here in london. I grew up in a motorsport family. My father was a drag racer. My father was an incredibly clever man who would create any parts with his own bare hands that he couldn t afford to purchase or to import. But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a seven year old, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it. Bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre
Presidential election regular things. But if these two guys in particular, what you re talking about, about j. D. Vance, i feel like that s more so more true than evero this year. Yeah. They don t typically matter. But this one may. On yeah. O and we don t know which j. Vance we may know but we really don t know which one will come tomorrow night. So, we ll see. I ve got a big rachel maddow show style spiel, a big story that i think people don t know about vancedo coming up a littl later on in the show. Oh, good. That s my homework assignment for tonight. We ll be watching. Thank you, jen. Muchnk appreciated. Thanks at home for joining us this hour. This is one of those news day where everything isho busting o all over. There s a lot going on. And a lot of the big news in the country and the world is still developing tonight. So, i have to tell you, tonight we are keeping our eyes trained on the middle east. A suggest nif can t expansion in the conflict between israel and hezbollah in
Displaced israelis to return to their homes in the north. Meanwhile, the Deputy Chief of hezbollah, naim qaissem, said the groups fighters are ready to confront an invasion. He acknowledged that the assassination of leader Hassan Nasrallah was a big blow, but said all fallen commanders would soon be replaced. President Joe Biden maintained his call for an end to fighting. Weve also heard from the us department of defense. Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh spoke to the bbc about the conflict in the last hour. What theyre doing along the northern border is conducting limited operations to dismantle hezbollah infrastructure, but again its really for the israelis to speak to in their own operations. What the secretary continues to urge for is to seek a diplomatic solution. We certainly want to see regional tensions cool, we want to see. We see the best path forward is through diplomatic means, and so that is what we are continuing to push for. Officials in lebanon say more than
Hello i am Jackie Deangelis along with sara carter, Griff Jenkins and jason chaffetz, welcome to the big Weekend Show the big story tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris heading to Las Vegas for a Campaign Rally after making a stop at the border on friday for the first time in three years. Immigration becoming a key issue for voters, the bp doubling down that the crisis at our Southern Border is Trumps Fault not h hers. There are consequential issues at stake in the selection. One is the security of our border. The United States as a sovereign nation and i believe we have a duty to set rules and are border and to imports them. These men and women that work there and other places along our southern Border Help keep our nation secure and they need more resources to do their jobs. Even though Donald Trump tried to sabotage the Border Security Bill it is my pledge to you that as president of the United States i will bring it back up and probably sign into law. Jackie earlier Today Trump fi