welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in three weeks time, italians vote in a general election. now, if the opinion polls are to be believed, the country is about to embrace a political movement with its roots in post war fascism. what would that mean for italy and for europe? well, my guest today, here at the ambrosetti forum a sort of italy style davos gathering is enrico letta, a former italian prime minister and leader of the centre left democratic party. is his effort to keep the far right out of power doomed to fail? enrico letta, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation. we appreciate your time, particularly because you are in the middle of a fiercely fought election campaign. would you accept that right now, you in the centre left look as though you are going to lose? no, i think we will win. how can you think that, when the raw mathematics of this election look so bad for you? and i say that because the right has coordinated, it has organised
crown prince. respect to the murder of khashoggi, raised at the top of the meeting making it clear what i thought at the time and what i think of it now. i said very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on an issue of human race is inconsistent with who we are and who i am. basically said that he was not personally responsible for it. i indicated that i thought he was. yes. you are getting under fire for your fist bump with the crown prince. i just want to give you a chance to respond to that. but how can you be sure that another incident or murder like khashoggi will not happen again? god love you, what a silly question, how can i be sure of any of that? it s been the president is under enormous pressure to take down gas prices with the trip and democrats in his own party getting tired of his inflation spin. we have a responsibility in the leadership to be honest with people, to not try to spin them. and then we have a responsibility to charge
posts years ago. saying they don t reflect her views today. apparently that was not enough. the new york post said no sin is ever forgiven in the brave new woke world. she is just the last in a long list of victims. to dr. seuss books and looney toons characters. even former president trump was banned from twitter. christina coleman is following the story. christina. hi, yeah, she has apologized over and over again for some of the things she tweeted a decade ago when she was just 17 at the time. but still because of those years-old tweets she will no longer start as editor in chief of teen vogue next week. it sparked outrage from some of teen vogue staffers and readers because of the homophobic and anti-asian tweets she posted a decade ago. the owner of teen vogue was aware of the tweets. the company s officer sent an email saying she was straight forward and transparent about these posts during our interview process and through public apologies years ago. they say she ha
a 21-year-old man murdered eight people at a local spa. the terrifying 911 call made by one woman inside one of those spas. hurry. do you have a description of him, ma am? i am hiding right now. is it a male or female. they have a gun. a gun that killed eight people including six asian women. here are the names of the dead we know so far. age 33, yong, paul an andre michels age 54. yan age 49, daoyou feng at 44. very concerned. i have been speaking about brutality against asian americans the last couple of months, it is very very troublesome. i am making no connection at this moment of the killer. i am waiting for an answer as the investigation proceeds from the fbi and from the justice department. we are all waiting. in the meantime the fear among asian americans in this country is growing. crimes against asians in america have spiked during the pandemic. 150% in antiasian hate crimes in major u.s. cities in 2020 while overall hate crimes fell by 7%. tonigh
eight people killed in shootings at three spas in metro atlanta. one suspect is in custody. cnn is live from the scene. president biden visiting a place in pennsylvania in part of his tour to promote the nearly $2 trillion relief that didn t get a single republican vote. also tonight, president trump including americans including supporters to get vaccinated. that as medical experts fear states are easing up their covid-19 restrictions too fast as a highly contagious variant of the virus spreads quickly in the united states. let s get right to our breaking news. talking about those shootings at three spas in georgia, leaving at least eight people dead. two shootings in northeast atlanta and one in northwest. one northwest of the city in cherokee county. a suspect in cherokee county, and the shooting there has been taken into custody. so let s go right to cnn s ryan young. the fbi assisting in this investigation. what can you tell us? actually, don, we know that robert long