after speaker of the house kevin mccarthy over the fringe bill that may not even come up for a vote. president biden: they introduced another vote. raising taxes on working class people taxing groceries, gasoline, clothing, supplies, medicine. even big ticket items like rent and cars. 30% sales tax on all those issues. speaker of the house says he is not sure he is for it now. blessed father free of sin. harris: wow, okay. speaking of not being able to get along. that would be a sign of it there saying things like that the president oddly was digging in over the debt limit. even though you saw on this program yesterday senator rick scott of florida and others now chiming in we re ready to negotiate with the president. the president is not interested in negotiation. president biden: the very notion that we would default on the safest, most respected debt in the world is mind-boggling. i will not let anyone use the full faith and credit of the united states as a bargainin
taken from his nicaraguan prison cell and flown to america. the good news is he s been reunited with his family after years apart. the bad news is ortega is trying to eliminate all opposition. so has resistance become impossible in nicaragua? felix maradiaga in miami. welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. and it s a pleasure to be back here. well, it is great to have you back on hardtalk, not least because you have just emerged from more than 600 days in a nicaraguan prison. was it a surprise when you were told that you were to be released? the release was a surprise given we were under terrible, inhumane prison conditions. and one of the most complicated parts was the complete isolation. we were not allowed phone calls for 611 days. i had no access to lawyers. even our trial took place inside the prison. so we were not able to really know what s going on outside. is it true that you lost? i think nearly £60. that is, what, 20 or more kilos in the course of your imprisonmen
ken mccallum s expression of deep regret came after an official report found that the suicide attack that killed 22 people might have been avoided. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. nicaragua s veteran autocratic leader daniel ortega has been locking up political dissidents for years now. he has a new tactic mass deportation and withdrawal of citizenship from those who dare to criticise him and his family. my guest today is felix maradiaga, who was recently taken from his nicaraguan prison cell and flown to america. the good news is he s been reunited with his family after years apart. the bad news is ortega is trying to eliminate all opposition. so has resistance become impossible in nicaragua? felix maradiaga in miami, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steven. it s a pleasure to be back here. well, it is great to have you back on hardtalk, not least because you have just emerged from more than 600 days in a nicaraguan prison. was it a sur
and thousands of workers across the uk switch to doing fewer hours for exactly the same pay, after the world s biggest trial of a four day work week. president putin is to set out his latest thinking about the war in ukraine shortly, as the anniversary of the invasion of ukraine approaches. these are the live pictures from moscow where he ll be addressing both houses of the russian parliament and senior military figures. it comes a day after president biden s surprise visit to kyiv where, in a joint statement with president zelensky, he said that putin s war of conquest is failing. president putin s speech was meant to take place in december but was postponed after a series of setbacks on the battlefield. his last state of the nation address was nearly two years ago in april 2021. the fighting has cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides and hundreds of thousands of russians have been drafted into the army. we are expecting president putin to portray this almost year
coming up this hour, an honor that is long overdue, president biden will award a vietnam veteran with the medal of honor for his incredible bravery almost 60 years ago. we begin with breaking news out of south carolina where just in the last hour disgraced ex-lawyer alex murdaugh was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. after he was convicted of murdering his wife maggie and youngest son paul in a high profile case that captivated the country. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. before he was sentenced, murdaugh addressed the court this morning. i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son paul paul. pretty much all he said. last night in just under three hours