at 19, a number that is almost certain to rise in the days ahead. the u.s. president warming up thursday poll of a lot of loss of life as one official sank likely the biggest natural disaster disaster the state s ever seen. that s the biggest disaster in florida s history. tens of thousands of emergency workers and deployed statewide. now 2 million homes and businesses stay with the electricity. large parts of the state are underwater. instead it s a one in 1000-year rainfall. the governor ron desantis decided describe the storm surge is biblical. some of the damage was almost under scribe-able to see a house just sitting in the middle of a sterile bay. you must be flown because of the massive wind speed and storm surge and deposited in a body of water. there were cars floating in the middle of the water. some of the homes were total losses. he is expected to hit south carolina and coincide with high tide on friday, greatly to increasing the potential for flooding. the go
the head of the union representing striking border force staff says walkouts could go on for six months unless the government enters talks about pay. now on bbc news. hardtalk there will be a lot of blood in the land and it will be a lot of refugees. we expected that it s gonna be a pretty, well, long, timely operation, and it absolutely goes as planned. this has become much bigger than ukraine versus russia. l we can succeed only, and only, if we stay united. let me tell you a secret. i had possession of all the chelsea manning information. any method that was made i available, i would have taken. there was nothing that was going to stop me. | you give clinton a pass and you go after trump forjust mishandling classified information, you ll have a real problem in america. welcome to hardtalk s look back at another year of compelling interviews. i m stephen sackur. when historians review 2022, they will surely begin with a simple, grim observation. this year saw the first a
of questioning is trans phobic and it opens up trans people to violence. wait until you hear what the have to say about men giving birth to children. i will show you the full remark ahead. first tonight, we begin with th bizarre baffling and bewilderin blunders welcome that they are running the family of joe biden because first lady jill biden i under fire after comparing spinnaker negative tacos. while yesterday speaking in san antonio. rural health built this organization with the understanding that the differen diversity of this community as distinct as the as beautiful as the blossoms of miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in san antonio. those remarks prompted massive backlash from latinos from all across the country including from the national association of hispanic journalists where they said in statement, we are not tacos in the criticism was about the first lady s office was forced to shell out an apology with on staffer tweeting quote the
facilities used by rebel forces. energy bills for millions of households in britain are to rise by 80% in october. now, though, hardtalk. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. it is six months since vladimir putin ordered a multi front military invasion of ukraine. he set in motion a war which has already taken a terrible human toll and had profound consequences for european security, big power relations, and the world economy. putin calculated it was an aggression he could get away with. six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine s eastern and northern border. this didn t look like a sabre rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government led by volodymyr zelensky downplayed it, didn t want to believe it. but by mid january, kyiv s defence minister, oleksii
but a huge breakthrough on the president s agenda with news that democrat senatorjoe manchin will finally support a bill that injects billion into key climate policy. and in ukraine the counter offensive is on with progress to report around the city of kherson but will the supply of weapons from the west come quickly enough to sustain the momentum? tonight with the context, the republican strategist rina shah and chief political commentator for the i paul waugh. hello, welcome to the programme. it has been a while. four months in fact, sincejoe biden and xi xinping spoke, on the phone. today the two leaders talked for two hours 17 minutes. a long time. but let s be honest, there s plenty to talk about. the war in ukraine, china s behaviour in the south china sea, trade embargoes, nuclear proliferation, taiwan. and specifically the planned visit of the house speaker nancy pelosi, who is heading there next month. that has infuriated beijing. ms pelosi would be the highest