Rocking up into parts of wales. Generally speaking, the further south and east you are, the drier your day will be. Take care, goodbye. This hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Bushfires have killed at least eight people in south eastern australia since monday and destroyed more than 200 homes. Two men and a woman are killed after a lorry collides with a car in stanwell in surrey on new years eve. The mother of the british teenager found guilty of lying about being raped in cyprus back calls for tourists to boycott the country. In their new year messages, the Prime Minister says brexit will mark a new chapter for the uk, while the archbishop of canterbury urges people to heal the divisions of recent years. Next, in one of the highlights of the year for hardtalk, Sarah Montague interviews journalist ronan farrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of Harvey Weinstein. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Sarah Montague. The journalist ronan farrow won a Pulitzer Prize for his investi
President ial candidates is being groomed by russia to play the spoiler in 2020 and she said it is happened before but does she have any evidence for this charge . Welcome to the lead, im jiha im jake tapper. The white house working overtime after the act of the center of the impeachment inquiry Mick Mulvaney denying saying that trump withhold security aid to pressure the country to conduct an investigation to help President Trump political denying it but that is clearly what Mick Mulvaney said yesterday. Take a listen. To be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well . We do we do that all of the time with Foreign Policy. And i have news for everybody, get over it. There is going to be political influence in Foreign Policy. That admission or confession if you will shocked the nations capitol including individuals in the white house and mulvaney was quickly ordered to clean it up. He issu
Turkey. He is also warning them tonight to talk, but things could get much worse very quickly. President trump if they dont come of the sanctions and tariffs, and other things that we will do and are doing to turkey, will be devastating to turkeys economy. Kevin a warning of dire consequences, who told reporters that turkey has only one way out of the crisis in syria. Ceasefire and talk it out. President trump we have a situation where turkey is taking land from syria. Syrias not happy about it. Let them work it out. We should it be over there. Kevin the president s comments echoed a letter that he sent, urging him to make a good deal. You dont want to be responsible for the slaughter of thousands of people and i dont want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy. I will. Which is in part why the president pulled the u. S. Forces out of syria. But the decision is divided into strategic allies and political allies, in particular, here at home. A white house meeting late this
Debate. A cording to 538, trump was mentioned a total of 35 times thats down from 61 and 72 times on the second debates two nights. The frontrunner joe biden only mentioned trump once despite the fact that his biggest selling point thus far has been im the best to beat trump. So heres tonights headline. Yes, this is a democratic primary, but dont forget its followed by a general election. Thursdays debate, while highlighting some strong moments from some of the candidates also revealed looming storm clouds on the horizon for democrats. What might be working now to get twitter likes and make headlines might also make it impossible to win in the general. All of the candidates say theyre united against the common enemy trump, but it doesnt always seem like they really mean it. If youre here to beat trump then why are you trying to proving that youre the farthest left from the stage. Why are you trying to injure your potential nominee with petty attacks. If youre here to beat donald trump
Welcome to hardtalk. Im sarah montague. The journalist ronan farrow won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of Harvey Weinstein. His revelations about the Film Producer prompted an outpouring of rage at the way women had been treated and triggered the Metoo Movement an attempt at breaking the silence around Sexual Assault. In his new book catch and kill, hes posing difficult questions about the powerful media institutions he says tried to suppress the story. So how did the hollywood insider, the son of mia farrow and woody allen, break the story that took the shine off tinseltown . Ronan farrow, welcome to hardtalk. Good to be here. Now, many people wont be familiar with the expression catch and kill. Can you explain what it means . Catch and kill is an old term in american tabloid journalism. It refers to buying the rights to a story not to publish it, but to bury it sometimes at the behest of a powerful person. It is used both metaphorically, in the plot that unravels in this book