Us, the floor below. Just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside Yourfront Door . Does it affect your writing . Well, it depends on what you mean. If theres a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration and i might go out and see whats going on. But if theres a distant war going on in another place and i know about it, im not going to read about it while im doing my work for the day, but i certainly will inform myself about it later. You talk of distant wars, im thinking of wars much closer to home. You write a lot about your take on american politics. Youve talked about your feelings through the course of four years of donald trump. Youve talked about a country at war with itself, so the war isnt so very far away. Yes. The war that were engaged in here, fortunately, has not become, yet, a fighting war with guns to a large degree. But we are divided in ways that i have never seen before, and ive been
Of emmys for it, like six consecutive emmys for it. She plays Vice President selina meyer who issi just this instany iconic american tv political figure. If you have ever seen, even if you havent, you probably know about the character. Shes really ambitious. She wants to be president , not just Vice President , and shes also just a total disaster. Shes this craven and calculating political animal, but she spends all her time havingll to put out fires of he own making, fires of her staffs own making. Shes justow a disaster. And one of the sort of signature production things in the show, one of the things that the show does to great effect is that they use every last second of the show, during the end credits of each episode, the image on the right side of the Screen Squishes down a little bit, and they highlight in this while the credits are rolling, they highlight these campaign screwups and their various pr disasters. The end credits are like the best thing in the show. The end credit
Is found at a Nature Reserve in salford. And discovered in a field in lincolnshire, this Roman Artefact is 1,700 years old. But what is it . And coming up on Sportsday On Bbc News after a season of points deductions in the Premier League, are the financial rules that were used to punish everton and Nottingham Forest about to change . Good evening and welcome to the Bbc News At Six live from the Holyrood Parliament in edinburgh, on a tumultuous day in scottish politics. Humza yousaf has announced he is standing down as snp leader and scotlands First Minister afterjust 13 months in office. His politicalfuture had been uncertain since his announcement last thursday that he was ending Power Sharing with the scottish greens. They had clashed with the government over the scrapping of Climate Goals and the approach to gender reform. He was at risk of losing a Confidence Vote later this week. The snp now have 28 days to find a new leader whos supported by a majority here at holyrood. Our Scotl
North koreas Leader Kimjong Un Has arrived in russia to meet putin. Theyre expected to talk about an arms deal. What impact could that have on the war in ukraine . Here in the uk, female surgeons say they are being sexually harassed, sometimes around the operating theatre. The Royal College of surgeons say the findings are truly shocking. Our panel ron christie, former Special Assistant to president george w bush, and jenny kleeman, journalist and broadcaster. Welcome to the programme. We will start in libya with the flooding and the latest figures we have, 10,000 people still missing, thats according to the red cross, red crescent. Lets take a look at some of the pictures we are getting here to see some of the damage. You can see some of the water flowing here and the damage done to buildings. One city in particular, derna has been impacted because two dams have seemingly collapsed and that has caused widespread destruction. Latest numbers we have, 2800 people have been killed so far.
round of diplomacy in israel and the rest of the region. the talks come amid fears of a wider conflict. it s mr blinken s second visit since the war began. he s thought to be talking to israeli officials about how to pursue their military and security goals in gaza while limiting civilian casualties. meanwhile the israeli military says its ongoing ground offensive has now completed the encirclement of gaza city which was the most densely populated part of the palestinian territory before the war began last month. with the fighting intensifying there s been strongly worded criticism of the humanitarian situation emerging from the united nations. seven human rights experts have said that they believe that the palestinian people in gaza are at risk of genocide. israel has accused them of repeating hamas propaganda. and people across the region are waiting to hear from the leader of the lebanese islamist group, hezbollah. hassan nasrallah s speech in the coming hours will be