Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. President biden has reportedly paused arms sales to saudi arabia as his administration reviews relations with his long time strategic ally. Not long ago, candidate biden described the kingdom as a pariah, but is there any prospect of external or internal pressure challenging the authority of saudi arabias De Facto Leader, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman . Well, my guest is exiled saudi opposition activist, madawi al rasheed. What next for saudi arabia reform, repression or maybe both . Madawi al rasheed, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. You have become one of the highest profile saudi critics of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. I just wonder how you felt a couple of weeks ago when we saw the crown prince so warmly welcomed at the World Economic forum, the online davos event, where he was selling saudi arabia as an Investment Opportunity for the entire world. What did you make of that . Well, its a familiar image and a fami
Aid agencies are setting up emergency shelters. Hoping to steady the ship. Uk Prime Minister borisjohnson adds new recruits to his inner circle at Downing Street. And brightening up The Dark Nordic Winter as europes largest Festival Of Lights illuminates the danish capital. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and Around The World. One of indias most famous singers, Lata Mangeshkar, has died at the age of 92. The Bollywood Superstar was known to millions as the nightingale of india and had an extraordinary career spanning over half a century, singing more than 30,000 songs in 36 languages. She was hospitalised last month with covid. In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said she leaves a void in the nation that cannot be filled. Rajini vaidyanathan looks back at her life. Singing. She was one of the most recorded artists in history with thousands of songs to her name. The voice of the silver screen. Lata mangeshkar was a bollywood playback singer. In indian musicals where actor
Aid agencies are setting up emergency shelters. Hoping to steady the ship. Uk Prime Minister borisjohnson adds new recruits to his inner circle at Downing Street. And brightening up The Dark Nordic Winter as europes largest Festival Of Lights illuminates the danish capital. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and Around The World. One of indias most famous singers, Lata Mangeshkar, has died at the age of 92. The Bollywood Superstar was known to millions as the nightingale of india and had an extraordinary career spanning over half a century, singing more than 30,000 songs in 36 languages. She was hospitalised last month with covid. In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said she leaves a void in the nation that cannot be filled. Rajini vaidyanathan looks back at her life. Singing. She was one of the most recorded artists in history with thousands of songs to her name. The voice of the silver screen. Lata mangeshkar was a bollywood playback singer. In indian musicals where actor
You were in, the cnn newsroom im paula reid in washington. Any moment now at st. Patricks day, tradition, President Joe Biden will soon deliver remarks from the white house. And well bring that to life. Ive just ahead. But for now, we had to russia, where Election Officials say Vladimir Putin is in the lead in the president ial vote polls close earlier today after a three de, vote with no genuine opponent running against putin he is expected to win, keeping him in office until 2030 and continuing russias longestserving leader since soviet dictator Joseph Stalin cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Frederik Pleitgen is in berlin. Starting with you, matthew putin just spoke. What did he say . Yeah it was a very short victory speech, even though the final results havent come in, it looks like this has been a Landslide Victory as expected for the russian president to secures a fifth president ial term. And these were shot comments at his campaign headquarters. He walked into the room, he t
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