france has had little rain in the last few weeks, and water levels have dropped alarmingly. spain has also suffered from the drought. now on bbc news, it s 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 criticize 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, 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 wh
Now. We are rocking it. Theyre throwing grenades, shooting people with paint balls but were in here. Be safe, be safe. God bless and godspeed and keep going. Get it, jess. Do your [ bleep ]. This is what we [ bleep ] lived up for. Everything we trained for. We begin tonight on the start of hispanic heritage month, when americans are supposed to celebrate the culture and contributions of americans with ancestors from mexico, the caribbean, and central and south america. It was president lint Lyndon Johnson who created hispanic Heritage Week after appealing the most xenophobic antiimmigration law. Today, while Many Americans are honoring those hispanic contributions, last night, Florida Governor ron desantis had a different idea. Proudly taking credit for sending two plane loads of latino migrants to Marthas Vineyard in massachusetts. Roughly 50 venezuelan and colombian migrants, many fleeing Venezuelas Maduro regime, said they had gun from san francisco, texas, where they were offered f
we re glad to be together on this couch. rachel: we are glad to be together. will: petition and i were talking, it s like we were talking in code and rachel s like i m not following. we were speaking in sports pet s metaphor. rachel: we do speak in code sometimes. we don t talk in code with you. we re grateful you re here, fourth hour of two days, four hours, we re in the home stretch. we have a lot of big news. rachel: we sure do. there s no bigger news in my house than our baby valentina turned 3 years old. she celebrated with a birthday dinner and we got her cake. she has come along way. she doesn t just have down s syndrome. she had a serious heart condition when she s was six months old, had open hearth surgery so we re so glad and i want to be put it up because so many viewers prayed so hard for her and her doctors during the surgery. she is doing great. she just started school. they start school for children with special needs with down s a little earlier so she s st
are questions from the state legislature about the potential misuse of state funds. let s start with the civil suit. that s coming from a legal group representing more than 30 of the asylum seekers, fiemg a claim against governor ron desantis and other state officials saying that the migrants experienced, quote, cruelty akin to what they fled in their home country of venezuela. it claims florida officials manipulated them, stripped them of their dignity, deprived them of their liberty, bodily autonom autonomy due process under the law. that s what they claim. basically they say desantis lied. and their lawyers are looking into these brochures used to entice those seeking a better life to travel under the guise that resettlement support was available to them. the governor keeps insisting the asylum seekers knew what they were signing up for. it was all voluntary and he claimed the humane thing to do. those migrants were being treated horribly by biden. they were hungry, home
heinrich starts us off tonight. good evening, jacqui. good evening, mike. today in a background call about these documents, the white house counsel s office at one point encouraged reporters to look into the secret deals kevin mccarthy made to be secret speaker of the house. sums up the posture of this administration and the information blackout that we are getting right now. come on, guys. reporters didn t hear from the president s lawyers today. but the white house brought the golden state warriors to the brady briefing room. good afternoon, everybody. and the press secretary. i have been forthcoming from this podium. and, yet, most questions directed at karine jean-pierre went unanswered. reporters repeatedly referred to the white house counsel s office which had made an adviser, not a lawyer, available just an hour earlier. referring reporters to the department of justice and the president s personal attorney. we have within trying to answer questions thor