to this empire. early on, rupert develops a machiavellian approach to the newspaper business. it s about putting your rivals under. and mr maxwell certainly has lost. and, rupert discovered if you start turning the dial down market, ratings go up. sex and murder and blood, and mayhem. he bought up 40% of the circulation of newspapers in england. this is his moment to expand. post here! get your post here. new york post. murdoch put his stamp on the city of new york. here i am. you d better pay some attention. i m going to have one hell of an impact. as usual, we were drinking one night, the producers, the reporters and me. we always gathered. the first concrete block was removed by east german workers. and we hear the berlin wall is coming down. what? we ve got to go. what? a current affair s got to go to the wall? oh yeah. so we made a few calls. and we commandeered the gulfstream jet. and about eight or nine of us got on that jet at midnight and flew t
water volumes along the yangtze river are currently at their lowest ever levels. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. for six months now, ukraine has been a nation at war, the government and people united in a conviction that they are fighting for freedom. but in the face of the existential threat posed by putin s invasion, has ukraine stayed true to the democratic values it loudly proclaims? well, my guest is olga rudenko, the editor of the kyiv independent, a news organisation committed to reporting from ukraine without fear or favour. but is there room for independentjournalism on the ukrainian battlefield? olga rudenko in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. well, stephen, thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. just a short time ago, you reflected with time magazine on the impact of what is now a six month long war that you have lived through, you ve experienced. you said, none of us are the same people. we may
independent, a news organisation committed to reporting from ukraine without fear or favour. but is there room for independentjournalism on the ukrainian battlefield? olga rudenko in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. well, stephen, thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. just a short time ago, you reflected with time magazine on the impact of what is now a six month long war that you have lived through, you ve experienced. you said, none of us are the same people. we may look the same on the outside, but on the inside, we have changed. how have you changed? well. even as you were saying that, i was thinking about how true it is, especially today, you know, six months, exactly six months after the war started. and looking back, i honestly can t believe how i could even come to the office, this office, on any day and think that i was having a difficult day while, actually, you know, in retrospect, it was so normal, the life that we were having before
distributors. i have to look everywhere because we can t get enough ice. how a de mining charity is working to save lives, removing unexploded ammunition left behind in war torn ukraine. it s very difficult to put estimates on how long, there is huge work ahead i mean years decades to clear ukraine. what we see is the impact on the local level. local level. the treatment of american local level. the treatment of american indians local level. the treatment of american indians today - local level. the treatment of american indians today by i local level. the treatment of. american indians today by the film industry, excuse me. and the organisers of the oscars apologise to a native american actress, nearly 50 years after she was booed off stage for declining the best actor award on marlon brando s behalf. hello and welcome to the programme. the us department ofjustice says releasing details about the warrant to raid donald trump s florida home could cause irreparable damag
and imagine if after all the slavish loyalty to donald trump and all of the red and pink starbusts kevin mccarthy does not become speaker of the house. tonight, we re going to imagine what a sorry state of affairs it would be if he does. we begin tonight with me. in this chair. yes, i am back and very grateful to my dear friends jason johnson and tiffany cross for holding down the bridge of the reidout enterprise for two whole weeks. two weeks i flew away for my writing retreat, and it turns out i can t leave you alone for one day let alone two weeks without all hell breaking lose. there was the fbi searching mar-a-lago on day one, polio in new york on like day three. i mean, apparently, i need to stay here to keep y all out of trouble. real talk, now that i m here and all caught up, i have questions. because it is not, shall we say, normal for a president of the united states to pack up boxes of classified top secret material and ferry them off to his private residence. th