thank you from the very bottom of my heart. # i can rub and scrub this house # till it s shining just like a dime.# and the hollywood film star and model raquel welch has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. we start in buffalo in new york state where the self declared white supremacist, payton gendron has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a racially motivated mass killing. this is him, being led into the courtroom he d earlier admitted murdering 10 people during that attack at a supermarket last may. he drove more than 200 miles to the store, which is in a predominantly african american part of buffalo. before sentencing, a relative of one of the victims was giving a statement when someone tried to attack gendron have a look. you don t know a damn thing about black people! we are human. we like our kids to go to good schools. we love our kids. we never go in no neighbourhoods to take people out. don t do it! overlappi
my guest today is kenneth roth, just retired after 30 years leading the campaign group human rights watch. he s been banned in a host of countries. is it time to acknowledge his brand of human rights campaigning isn t working? kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it s good to be with you. it s good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world s highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat? no, not at all. infact, i mean, maybe i should start with your introduction, because, you know, your introduction was the common wisdom. you know, that democracy is in decline, that autocracy is ascendant. in fact, i think it s a bit more complicated than that. i mean, we are seeing the rise of autocratic voices, you know, the trumps of the world, in western democracies. but if you look at the leading autocratic countries and you put yo
thank you from the very bottom of my heart. a 19 month old girl becomes the first british child to receive a new life saving gene therapy we have an exclusive report. # i can rub and scrub this house # till it s shining just like a dime.# and the hollywood film star and model raquel welch has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in buffalo in new york state, where the self declared white supremacist payton gendron has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a racially motivated mass killing. this is him, being led into the courtroom. he d earlier admitted murdering ten people during that attack at a supermarket last may. he drove more than 200 miles to the store, which is in a predominantly african american part of buffalo. before sentencing, a relative of one of the victims was giving a statement when someone tried to attack gendron. have a look. you don t know a damn thing about black people! we are human. we like our kids to
now on bbc news, powering ukraine. russian missiles and drones rain down on ukraine s civilian infrastructure, causing untold damage. it s been happening for months. this is ukraine s energy war, a constant battle for heat and light, with an army of engineers racing to keep the country connected. for ukrainians, it has been a winter of darkness and uncertainty. how does a country respond when the stakes are so high? if the power system collapses, that would mean the suffering of tens of millions of people during wintertime. we cannot allow that, not on my watch. we follow the teams fighting this war. what the missiles destroy, they rebuild, in places where people are living on the edge. this power plant in central ukraine has been hit repeatedly. it s a huge place, but this is what well aimed russian missiles have done to the country s infrastructure. missile fragments litter the place. for security reasons, we have been asked not to identify the plant or its manager. so what
the views, you don t get this out of a aeroplane window. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from switzerland or, more specifically, the international balloon festival in the swiss alps. we ll be taking a bird s eye perspective on that later on. but in the meantime, let s head to zurich for something a little more underground. i m on a journey from switzerland s capital, beginning with a drive two hours south west, because i ve heard that all around this country is a vast network of bunkers some of which are open for travellers to explore. among them are old military forts, which you can still see hidden in the mountainside. glorious view. ..if you have a sharp eye. so, i ve been given a pin that tells me that there s a bunker basically here, somewhere. it s camouflaged. so, there s going to be a trick actually finding it. i mean, this stretch of mountainside just does look like every other stretch of mountainside for miles in either direction. s