her buzzer strategy, troll handle and her pick for permanent host. first, is there a way out? is there a way out of the cataclysmic conflicts that seem to consume everything? divisions over covid, vaccines, teaching, policing, feel like they re making the united states less and less so. and media outlets are very much a part of this entangled in conflict, us versus them, less versus right, the middle versus extremes, heroes versus villains, alt-right versus mainstream and so on. healthy conflict can be good, but we are in a state of ohio conflict, defined in a recent book as a good versus evil kind of feud. when people lose their minds and ideological disputes, political feuds or gang vendettas. high conduct is a force that causes people to lie awake at night and fear for the future. i can see this kind of conflict right now with a looming supreme court confirmation battle. i guess i could call it a confirmation process, maybe i should, but i default to the word battle beca
tomorrow they could see what they are really applicants. that s when china s armed forces begin its largest military drills and more than a quarter of century. for two days of live fire exercises in six nodes around taiwan. the actions that come within miles of the disputed islands coast, essentially blockading trade and violating taiwan s nautical linear spaces. at the same time the uss ronald reagan aircraft carrier strike groups in the region of the u.s. is taking part in joint military drills with indonesia, australia, japan, and singapore. all this as washington warns china not to turn this into a crisis. shannon, what we need to know? shannon: i was talking with michael pillsbury. we know him as one of the most foremost authorities on china and he said this is kind of a very dangerous period especially when you have these drills and exercises going on. not that they themselves, they are provocative. there s always this chance of a mistake when you have these forces. t
and all eyes on the georgia primaries, it s a big night for the gop and for donald trump. what will it tell about his power to shape the republican party? tonight with the context former eu foreign policy adviser nathalie tocci, and bryan lanza, a former trump communications director. hello, welcome to the programme. we don t yet have sue grey s full report into the parties held in downing street during lockdown, but we do have new and damning evidence of what went on. for the first time, insiders who attended these gatherings have told the bbc that parties were routine. they say staff sat on each other s laps at a leaving do in november 2020, the same party at which the prime minister is seen raising a glass, and that security guards were laughed at when they tried to stop one party from taking place. laura keunssberg has spoken to three people who worked in whitehall, for the bbc s panorama programme, one of whom had attended one of these parties. their voices are spoke