elegant dinners. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it s not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it s good to be with you. it s good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world s highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat? no, not at all. infact, i mean, maybe i should start with your introduction, because, you know, your introduction was the common wisdom. you know, that democracy is in decline, that autocracy is ascendant. in fact, i think it s a bit more complicated than that. i mean, we are seeing the rise of autocratic voices, you know, the trumps of the world, in western democracie
but that hasn t been possible because of the latest escalation. here s a reminder of why this is happening. sudan s army general abdel fattah al burhan is fighting the leader of a paramilitary group, the rsf, led by general mohamed hamdan dagalo. they had been sharing power since they led a coup in 2021. now though, they disagree on how sudan should be governed. let s go live now to our correspondent kalkidan yibetal in addis ababa, who is closely monitoring the situation. first of all, the sudanese army saying there are plans in place to begin evacuating foreign nationals. what more do we know about those plans right now? plans right now? yes, we have already seen plans right now? yes, we have already seen the plans right now? yes, we have already seen the first - plans right now? yes, we have already seen the first rescue . already seen the first rescue operations in which more than 150 foreign nationals have arrived in jeddah. there was a statement released by the for
ayman tonight. trump s legal panels more problems for his family, and the same old arguments that just don t make sense. we have all of the details. plus, the republican attack on our education system could spell disaster for a generation of children. black parents are taking matters into their own hands. my exclusive conversation with the european union s ambassador to the united states. his take on where the war in ukraine is heading next. i m damon, let s get started. tonight we begin with new developments three separate legal matters involving donald trump. special counsel jack smith has now asked a judge to compel mike pence to comply with the grand dirty soup peanut to comply with his attorney in the criminal investigation over trump s the sealed motion came after attorneys for trump asserted de chantle privilege over the subpoena, and pence himself has said that he will fight that subpoena, though he has argued his former role as president of the senate, whic
we ve got some closure here but a lot more questions now to jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. we learned the three objects shot down since friday were most likely linked to commercial research projects, private companies and not to china s spy balloon program. despite that, the president says he makes no apologies for shooting down that spy balloon even after china has called it an overreaction. all week though the white house has been saying we re going to soon learn more about these new policy recommendations and national security advisers putting together for how we will better deal with future potential airborne threats given that we re now detecting more objects in our airspace since we ve dialled up the radar and we learned today that we re actually not going to hear the details. i ll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they re completed and remain classified so we don t give our road map to our enemies to try to
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