Votes on facebook. Its geek versus geek as spen meets fry. And lots of people shout in a big tent. Summer is on the way and, well, it wouldnt be a british summer without a visit to a good Old Fashioned festival. No, not that one. Much better. Known as the town of books, hay on wye in wales is the location of the hay festival. Its a literary mecca, an annual gathering of artists, authors, daleks and, yep, even royals. Its even been called the woodstock of the mind by none other than former us president bill clinton. This year its the 30th hay festival, and the line up is pretty stellar. Well, for the second year in a row, weve been invited to share some of our favourite experiences and show off some really good tech, all in front of a real, Live Audience of actual people. What could possibly go wrong . A packed tent waited, all that we had to do was wow them applause we had robots falling over, experiments in Haptic Feedback and demos in binaural sound, but that was nothing compared to
With me, zeinab badawi, recorded in front of an audience coming to you from the Bbc Radio Theatre as part of our freedom season. The acclaimed South Sudanese singer and political activist emmanuel jal was just a boy during the Sudanese Civil War when he was captured and forced to work as a Child Soldier in the 1980s. He escaped and went on to see his people gain independence in a referendum three years ago. But now, south sudan is once again in conflict as rival tribes descend into Ethnic Violence that has killed thousands since december and left nearly a million displaced and at risk of starvation. When will the people of south sudan enjoy Peace And Freedom at last and is emmanueljal himself free from the traumas of being a Child Soldier . Audience, please welcome emmanueljal to hardtalk. Emmanueljal, sudan as it was then at warforfive decades, nearly 2 Million People died from starvation or disease. You yourself in your young life really only knew conflict. I was born in violence so
That resulted in a woman being killed by a car was for to abandon a Media Briefing following protests. Meanwhile the white house defended President Trump after it was claimed he didnt go far enough in condemning violence by White Supremacists. Laura bicker reports. After a violent day of division, charlottesville has come together to pray, to show that this city condemns the hate brought here by neo nazis and White Supremacists. The Virginia Governor went from row to row, Hugging Worshippers in this baptist church. He promised to keep politics out of the pulpit, but there is a message he felt he had to give. It is about politics in that the political rhetoric in this country today is breeding bigotry. The streets here simmered with tension yesterday before finally erupting into violence, as White Supremacists gathered for a rally. The group, which included members of the klu klux klan, said they wanted to take america back. Counter protesters and anti racism activists challenged them.
member of iran s parliament says he s waiting for more information, but says this attack bears all the hallmarks of an operation by israel s mossad intelligence agency. reporter: the biden administration says neither the u.s. nor israel is behind the attack. we have no indication that israel was in any way involved in this. reporter: current and former u.s. officials tell nbc news they believe a terror group like isis is most likely responsible. the new attacks come as fears are rising of war escalating throughout this region. just yesterday, a top hamas leader was killed in an air strike on a hamas strike on a hamas office here in beirut.
soleimani was buried. ordinary people were outside, and they took the brunt of the blast. many women and children were killed. now, as of yet, as you mentioned, nobody s claimed responsibility for this, but officials in the country are starting to point the finger at israel, iran s president raisi said that israel is going to be punished very gravely for these attacks and past attacks. a very senior member of iran s parliament just in the last hour or so said that he s still waiting for more information, but this attack bears all the hallmarks of massad operation. the former head of the irgc also said this was an israeli and american operation and that this would spell the end of the israeli regime. so a lot of saber rattling coming out of iran. they re clearly blaming israel for this attack. just after the attack also