news alert. president biden starting day two of the new year with a slog uphill to try to convince american voters, especially those of color, that he actually can do the job of solving their toughest issues. two days into the new year, three years into his presidency. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the president took a new year s message out for a spin. president biden: my hope is that everybody has a healthy, happy and safe new year. beyond that, i hope that they understand that we are in a better position than any country in the world to lead the world. we re coming back and it is about time. harris: he is currently navigating around two foreign wars, dismal poll numbers, one poll after another. and a biden border crisis that just won t quit. republicans have some thoughts on that very last one. if we cannot secure our own borders what does it say about our country? this is very dangerous. i think democrats are realizing that the border is
and could a conviction in any of these cases be a tipping point for voters? scheduling nightmare aside in all of this, the former president might not even get on the republican ballot in some states. we ve got a wave of new developments in the effort to disqualify trump ahead of the primaries. where it s working and where it s getting kind of messy. meanwhile, in d.c., another motion has been filed by jack smith in donald trump s election interference case. what the special counsel is now asking the judge to block the former president from doing during trial proceedings. let s dive right in. joining us now is washington post senior political reporter aaron blake, former congresswoman and msnbc political analyst donna edwards, and msnbc political analyst, democratic strategist, and pollster cornell belcher. thanks for being here. aaron, let s start with you. as we approach the new year, paint a picture of this, if you could, of just how chaotic this could get. only one of do
..and the aviator. we don t care about - money here, mr hughes. well, that s because you have it. ..the departed. think about it, hot shot. ..which brought scorsese his first best director oscar, and the wolf of wall street. i want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich. in all, he s made more than 45 features, often crime films, and won numerous accolades. it s a very impressive body of work. his films have been influenced by his italian american background and by his catholicism. he nearly always features macho, posturing men and sometimes extreme violence. what i like about martin scorsese as a film maker is that his films are about something. they have moral weight. also, he s incredibly skilled as a director. he has his hallmark use of rapid editing at times, use of slow motion and freeze frames and ingenious use of contemporary soundtracks. when people first heard that you were making this film, they were surprised because they thought it was very different in
hello, and welcome to a special edition of the travel show covered in ice, snow, and that special kind of magic, as much of the world prepares to celebrate christmas, and also the end of another year. we spent most of 2023 on the road, so it s a great opportunity to be at home to recharge and look back at some of our favourite winter adventures here on the programme. so without further ado, let s jump straight in and remember the time when ade headed to finnish lapland not to meet santa claus, but a rapper who s keeping his language alive with music. huskies howl. ade: finnish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. more than one million tourists come here each year in search of the northern lights, santa, and his reindeer. the sami are the indigenous people who live in this part of the world from northern norway, sweden, finland, and the far north part of russia. there s around 6,000 samis left in this part of finland, and here, they re known as the inar
at the very beginning they have no emotions, but she was growing and growing and also yesterday, she was hungry because she made in her opinion a wrong exercise, it was not the way i learned, and she has fear, she is worried, and at the same time, she is able now to manage her emotions. this ability disability, in italian, it means something less. what is less? we are different talented. uplifting music. hello there. storm gerrit brought some disruption up and down the country with gales, heavy snow across scotland, led to some road closures and some localised flooding in places too. thursday promises to be a little bit quieter, but it s still going to stay pretty windy with gales in places and sunshine and blustery showers. we could see further disruption in some parts of, say, north west england, north and west wales with further gales here and there ll be further snowfall on the scottish hills. some of the showers could merge together for longer spells