new york s legendary studio 5a nightclub dies by assisted suicide in switzerland. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in sri lanka, where president gotabaya rajapaksa has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew to the maldives about 2k hours ago. but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state while he was absent. that s led to anger among protestors, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile, a curfew is in force. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, crowds gathered in front of his office, one of the few government buildings not yet occupied by protesters. there is a tense stand off here in colombo. the protesters are here along this avenue, and on the other side you can see the security forces who are guardi
fighting. if her pants had cuffs she would have pretended to be a leg irons. real handcuffs, not so much. that didn t stop her from pretending. i hate it when people do this to me. when i asked people to put on handcuffs and they say i ll just pretend i have them on. i would be like short, and i will pretend to pay you after. [laughter] i think dana just went into an arrhythmia. yes, i pay people to wear handcuffs. she did this because she knew the media would obey. let s watch the tape. abortion rights are under attack. what do we do? greg: she would be a great mime. like the latina version of marcel marceau. here she is later in her jail cell. of course aoc was mocked on social media for imitating being handcuffed which is a change for her usual change from being mocked by imitating a congresswoman. that s not even being as close to as disgusting as i can be. she was gingerly escorted alert to a holding area. she raised her fists to supporters. then she crossed her wr
bat told the select committee that she was scared and nervous about what could happen on january 6th when her former boss, mark meadows, acknowledged that things could get bad on that day. key moments from this hearing. hutchison said the president was upset, that the elapse where he was about to speak on january 6th wasn t completely full and that he did not want the secret service because he said the people some of whom were armed are not there to harm him. she also testified that the president desperately wanted to go to the capitol and that she said kevin mccarthy at one point called her up and told him not to come. when the president was told by the secret service that he was not going, she was told that he had a very dramatic response inside the beast. listen. it had very strong, very angry response to that. tony described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect of, i m the f-ing president. take me to the capitol now. to which bobby reresponde
slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s. and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, j.r. ewing, as a pop phenomenon. tell me, j.r., which slut are you goi
maybe french cuffs. she did surrender without fighting. if her pants had cuffs she would have pretended to be a leg irons. real handcuffs, not so much. that didn t stop her from pretending. i hate it when people do this to me. when i asked people to put on handcuffs and they say i ll just pretend i have them on. i would be like short, and i will pretend to pay you after. [laughter] i think dana just went into an arrhythmia. yes, i pay people to wear handcuffs. she did this because she knew the media would obey. let s watch the tape. abortion rights are under attack. what do we do? greg: she would be a great mime. like the latina version of marcel marceau. here she is later in her jail cell. of course aoc was mocked on social media for imitating being handcuffed which is a change for her usual change from being mocked by imitating a congresswoman. that s not even being as close to as disgusting as i can be. she was gingerly escorted alert to a holding area. she raised he