winfrey but he is out of his comfort zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost as zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost as well, zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost as well, going - zone on the stand. absolutely and as i found to my cost as well, going in l i found to my cost as well, going in the witness box is the loneliest place in the world and it s a lot more unsettling and traumatic than if you are on newsnight. you have some of the best lawyers who are pulling your life apart and it s going to go on for days. i was prosecuted for tax fraud in 2016 and i went in the witness box for four days and got decimated, really. i ve written a book about this which is coming out soon, time after time, about the emotional trauma when you are put through the wringer like that. he might have bitten off more than he can
incarcerated at cornton vale women s prison, and i hope that provides assurance to the public presiding officer, not least to the victims in this particular case. at least nine palestinians are killed in an israeli raid in the west bank. the us secretary of state is to visit israel and the west bank next week. and in just over an hour s time, an asteroid the size of a bus is passing the earth on one of the closest approaches on record. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. in the united states in the last hour, president biden has called for calm, after five police officers were charged with murder of tyre nichols, a black man severely beaten after a traffic stop earlier this year. the officers in memphis, tennessee who are all black were fired last week, after being accused of using excessive force. their actions were caught on body cameras. that video will be released within the next 2a hours. here s what
and we re walking to another one, which they are in the process of destroying right now. farmers here know how harmful opium is. there are high levels of addiction in their own country. but there is no other option, says ali mohammed mir, whose field was destroyed. translation: if you don t have enough food in your house - and your children are going hungry, what else will you do? if we grew wheat instead, we won t earn enough to survive. when they hit those stalks hard, they sometimes come flying in the air. what definitely comes flying is the sap from these buds, that is the opium resin. there is a very pungent smell of it in the air right now. the taliban go armed and in large numbers. there have been instances of clashes with angry locals.
there are high levels of addiction in their own country. but there is no other option, says ali mohammed mir, whose field was destroyed. translation: if you don t have enough food in your house - and your children are going hungry, what else will you do? if we grew wheat instead, we won t earn enough to survive. when they hit those stalks hard, they sometimes come flying in the air. what definitely comes flying is the sap from these buds, that is the opium resin. there is a very pungent smell of it in the air right now. the taliban go armed and in large numbers. there have been instances of clashes with angry locals. they are accused of profiting from opium when they were fighting against foreign forces and the former afghan regime a claim the taliban deny.