first african pope. is the catholic church at a crossroads? cardinal peter turkson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. in your long career in the church, you have seen the centre of gravity, the geographical centre of gravity of the church, shift quite dramatically. what difference do you think it has made? well, thanks for having me on the show. yeah, it is true. it is true that what used to be. ..a church centred in europe, out of which a lot of missionaries went out, and so came to africa and several other places in the south, we see some decline. decline that manifests itself first in the form that missionaries are no more. ..out there to be sent. church numbers are dwindling. but in the home of those missionaries. yes, yes. in germany, in germany, in france, in ireland. absolutely. and those countries where the missionaries did their work so many years ago, they re not really needed now because the catholic church is in countries such as your own in ghana. right. so that is
hello everyone. i m sh sshena with the five. california governor gavin newsom taking a swing at republicans while discussing his states s problems, growing concerns california is reverting spending millions to clean up homelessness for the apex summit taking late night tv and blaming the g.o.p. for amplifying the quality of life issues. they ve been on a deal about san francisco since nancy pelosi became speaker. california s values are difference of daylight and darkness in the republican party. they have to focus on our failure to be right. san francisco is a special place. it s a unique and special place. sounds like someone is looking for a rematch after the big red vs. blue state debate newsom taking shots at florida s ron desantis. i m not running for united states. parently desantis s. i ve developed animus toward him because of his animus to you. is he s out there scapegoating communities, attacking minorities and women. what he means is anti-black. he s out
election admitted in a sworn statement released on wednesday that she had knowingly misrepresented the facts in several of her public claims that widespread voter fraud led to trump s defeat. the admissions by ellis were part of an agreement to accept public censure and settle disciplinary measures brought against her by state bar officials in her home state of colorado. jenna ellis s confession is a far cry from the lies she told to millions. president trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this election. we have at least six states that were corrupted if not more through the voting systems. we know that president trump won in a landslide. but we knew he didn t and it turns out so did she. in a statement posted on twitter, jenna ellis claimed that the case against her was politically motivated and ellis and her attorney insist that she remains a practicing attorney in good standing in colorado. what she admitted to doing, though, damaged democracy and sewed dist
we can feel it, right? in the moment yesterday. that history was being made in the state of tennessee yes, of course it was shameful that it came to all of that. expelling two state lawmakers ostensibly on procedural grounds over peaceful protests but ask yourself this. if the ultimate goal of any demonstration is to draw attention, to shine a light on injustice, then who is really better off as we come on the air less than 24 hours later today the tennessee republican party or those three democrats of whom they sought to make an examine pl representatives justin jones, justin parson and gloria johnson, they lit the match that started a bonfire, one that burned from coast to coast as americans watch transfixed yesterday afternoon into the evening on the east. now millions across our country are infinitely more aware not just of the barriers to do anything more than nothing about the epidemic of gun violence but of rank anti-democratic fervor among republicans. we are still