Can no longer be donald trump s music. hold on, i m hold on, i m coming today today a federal judge in georgia ordered trump to stop playing that song by isaac hayes, because isaac hayes s estate said it did not approve of the use and did not give the trump campaign permission to play it. Of this would be one thing if it were just an isolated incident, but it is not. For example trump has already switched his music to the village people s ymca, which i should note is widely understood to be an anthem of the gay community and which the village people themselves have objected to trump using. They have also threatened legal action against donald trump. In fact isaac hayes and the village people are just two of the dozens of artist and artist the states that have object did to donald trump using their music and that list includes abba, adele, aerosmith, the beatles, beyonce, bruce springsteen, celine dion, creedence clearwater revival, earth, wind, and fire. Elton john. Foo fighters. P
Had on him, and on us? motaz azaiza, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to have you. Take me back some years. The young motaz decided to take up the camera to start taking pictures in gaza. What was your motivation back then? my motivation was because i don t want to be a useless person. I was in high school and ifound my passion in photography. . . . . Because my father used to have, like, a camera and i have a big album for me when i was young and i started taking pictures, capture everything. You say capture everything. What interests me is that for many years, while there was conflict in gaza there were various israeli incursions, hamas were operating in gaza, there was conflict, there was death, there was bloodshed your focus for a very long time was onjoyful subjects. Life. 0n beauty, on life and love. Because i m someone like, i hate wars, i hate the bombing, i hate the occupation, i hate everything. And because of the picture for gaza now, for th
Digital platforms of all kinds, and also they re places where events go on, so they become very social. And i do events in libraries myself. I do readings for little ones performances, or i do readings about what s happened to me in my adult life, too. For adults. These events are nearly always free, and this encourages people to read and inquire and to find out about the world beyond themselves. But also, of course, libraries are places where you can find out more about yourself. You can regard them as mirrors as well as windows or doors that you go through. So, they re incredibly important places. Now time for the weather with stav hello there! we saw a lot more sunshine around across england and wales on tuesday. It was less gloomy and humid as well, but a cooler, fresher feel to things for the middle parts of the week for pretty much all areas, and we ll see a mixture of sunshine and showers. Now, this area of high pressure has been trying to push in from the west to settle things
But then there are images, which maybe speak even louder. My guest is motaz azaiza, a Young Palestinian Photographer whose work has been seen by many millions around the world. He left gaza after 108 days of war. What impact have his pictures had on him, and on us . Motaz azaiza, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to have you. Take me back some years. The Young Motaz decided to take up the camera to start taking pictures in gaza. What was your motivation back then . My motivation was because i dont want to be a useless person. I was in High School and ifound my passion in photography. Because my father used to have, Like, a camera and i have a big album for me when i was young and i started taking pictures, capture everything. You say capture everything. What interests me is that for many years, while there was conflict in gaza there were various israeli incursions, hamas were operating in gaza, there was conflict, there was death, there was bloodshed your f
I don t want to be a useless person. I was in high school and ifound my passion in photography. . . . . Because my father used to have, like, a camera and i have a big album for me when i was young and i started taking pictures, capture everything. You say capture everything. What interests me is that for many years, while there was conflict in gaza there were various israeli incursions, hamas were operating in gaza, there was conflict, there was death, there was bloodshed your focus for a very long time was onjoyful subjects. Life. On beauty, on life and love. Because i m someone like, i hate wars, i hate the bombing, i hate the occupation, i hate everything. And because of the picture for gaza now, for the people outside, they think gaza is all about war and they think there is no life there. So i was the one who wanted to create and to make, to create and to make this picture clear for people. So i was taking pictures for life, forjoy, for the daily life of gazans. Wars and aggr