jesse: great people make great impressions on us. buff not everybody idolizes the right person. as we grow up. not all of our heroes turn out to be the person we thought they were. for instance, i grew up idolizing michael jackson. i had the glove and everything. but we all know how that turned out. or sometimes the game show host you love might just punch you in the face. i can t believe you are a professional golfer. i think you should be working at the snack bar. you better relax, bob. there is no way that you could have been as bad as hockey as you are at golf. all right, let s go. [oh! you like that old samantha you want a piece of me? i don t want a piece of you. i want the whole thing. oh. jesse: as the saying goes, never meet your hero. and in 2020, democrats found that out the hard way. the left hailed joe biden as their hero. champion of all things liberal and defeater of donald trump. biden could no wrong in the democrats eyes. he was the party s kni
us federal agents discover the longest and most sophisticated tunnel of its kind used to smuggle drugs across the mexican border. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the evacuation of ukrainian troops from the azovstal steelworks in mariupol has continued, with a convoy of at least seven buses carrying soldiers escorted by pro russian forces. more than than 260 soldiers left, after a negotiated surrender. they ve been taken to areas held by russian backed rebels. meanwhile, western military sources say, vladimir putin is now directly involved, in the day to day running of the war, taking decisions, normally made by senior military figures. our correspondent laura bicker, reports. it has been a brutal and bloody 83 days, but their battle is over for now. the wounded from azovstal are carried out of the vast steel plant filmed by the very force they ve been fighting. russia will be keen to air these images which they say show surrender. but the ukrain
united states have found a tunnel linking mexico to a warehouse in san diego in california. it s equipped with a rail track, electricity and a ventilation system. six people have been arrested. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. for the last decade, the founder of wikileaks, julian assange, hasn t known freedom. first he was holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. for the last three years, he s been in belmarsh prison outside london. his lawyer is making a last ditch attempt to stop the uk government extraditing him to the us to face espionage charges. my guest is stella moris, the lawyer who worked on his defence team, became his wife, and is the mother of two of his children. why hasjulian assange become such a polarising figure? stella moris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you in the studio. over the next few days, the british home secretary, priti patel, is going to make a very big decision on w
an unnamed conservative mp, arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault, has been released on bail pending further police enquiries. the evacuation of the steelworks in mariupol continues. ukrainian officials say they are doing everything possible and impossible to save the remaining fighters. nearly half of the new nurses and midwives registered to work in the uk in the past year have come from abroad. industry leaders have questioned whether the levels of international recruitment are sustainable. and, in a huge tunnel has been discovered running under the mexico us border with its own rail track, electricity, and ventilation system. authorities say it was being used to smuggle drugs. welcome to bbc news. the uk s rate of inflation the measure of the rise in the cost of living has hit its highest level for a0 yea rs. and the rate at which it is increasing is the fastest since records began. it reached 9% in april, up from 7% the month before. that means the price