them as they recover from all of them the gravis and great to see you this morning. thank you very much. and new hours. cnn news central stars right now history will be made on several levels when president joe biden and former president donald trump take the stage for the cnn debate in atlanta with polls showing there in a dead heat, we have new details on the candidate strategies and the u.s. embassy in moscow fighting back as russia puts detained american journalist evan gershkovich on trial for what the state department says is a sham espionage charge and cities swamped by a deluge of flooding, roadways washed out and river gouges still at major flood stage across the upper midwest when will that water some side nine sarah side or john berman and kate bolduan, this is cnn news central the big day is here nearly here basically, here, joe biden, donald trump preparing to make history the first time a sitting president and debates a former president. in this first debate
plus, we just got some exclusive video a president widen and his former boss at a fundraiser last night sounding off on the supreme court. i will ask congressman jamie raskin about all the ways in which the rule of law is in trouble. and some thoughts from me about the aftermath of hunter biden s conviction and everything it tells us about his dad. . okay. here is a really important thing to remember. donald trump can t take a wrecking ball to american democracy all by himself. he will need lots of help to do it. he will need help from people in power who don t care about anything but pleasing him. and right now, we can see how much help he will get if he manages to get back to the white house. just a couple of days ago, trump made his first trip back to capitol hill since his supporters mobbed it on january 6. brutally attacking police officers and threatening to hang the vice president. how do you think who put all their lives in danger? well, obviously, with a birthday cak
I like their policies at the moment, i want to leave the European Union and i think theresa may is the only person who will get us out of the European Union with a reasonable deal. Labour. Ive always been labour. And our panel will tell us where theresa may sits on our map of the political terrain. Hello. Some of us remember the heydey of tv advertising. Consumer brands washing powders and the like would constantly market themselves as new and improved. Never mind that they were less than perfect before, as long as you now understood that they are better than ever. Well, the Conservative Party is pitching itself as new and improved today as well. A theresa may manifesto, with a pretty different emphasis to past efforts. A section entitled we believe in the good that government can do, for example. Some will say its just marketing, others will see it as substantive change. Certainly, the emphasis on scaling back the relative generosity displayed to the elderly is a notable shift. The po
Im stephen sackur. When the Aljazeera News Network was launched in qatar in 1996, it had a seismic impact on the media landscape in the middle east. Here was an arab broadcaster refusing to play by local rules. It was ambitious, punchy and provocative in its coverage of the region and the world. Two decades on, maybe its time for payback. Saudi arabia and its closest allies recently demanded qatar close the network down. My guest is mostefa souag, director general of aljazeera. Do his channel have a future . Mostefa souag, welcome to hardtalk. Good day, stephen. We have to start with the threat of closure that appeared to be hanging over aljazeera just a few short days ago. The threat of course which came from saudi arabia and its allies, which demanded the closing of the Aljazeera Network as a condition for lifting an economic blockade on qatar. Be clear with me. Is there still a risk you may have to shut down . Well, first of all i would like to say that aljazeera has created a new m
Im stephen sackur. When the Aljazeera News Network was launched in qatar in 1996, it had a seismic impact on the media landscape in the middle east. Here was an arab broadcaster refusing to play by local rules. It was ambitious, punchy and provocative in its coverage of the region and the world. Two decades on, maybe its time for payback. Saudi arabia and its closest allies recently demanded qatar close the network down. My guest is mostefa souag, director general of aljazeera. Do his channel have a future . Mostefa souag, welcome to hardtalk. Good day, stephen. We have to start with the threat of closure that appeared to be hanging over aljazeera just a few short days ago. The threat of course which came from saudi arabia and its allies, which demanded the closing of the Aljazeera Network as a condition for lifting an economic blockade on qatar. Be clear with me. Is there still a risk you may have to shut down . Well, first of all i would like to say that aljazeera has created a new m