controversial people from the past? barbara chase riboud, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. we re sitting here at a major exhibition of your work called infinite folds, and you started your artistic training at the age of seven. how on earth did you know at that early age that you wanted to become an artist? i didn t know i wanted to be an artist. it was my mother and my grandmother who decided that i was going to have something to do with the arts. they weren t quite sure what. you were 16 and you were the youngest person to ever have a work acquired by moma, the museum of modern art in new york. it was reba, which was a woodcut print of a young girl with a plant next to her. and you have said that success as a child came easily to me, and that i grew up as a confident, curious child, not willing to settle for anything but the best. were you always very ambitious from an early age? i wouldn t call it ambition. i didn t know what it was. i knew that i wanted to do somethin
a year of hope. a year of endurance. a year of unity. the year of invincibility. the furious year of invincibility. following a devastating year of russia s war of aggression, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vows to do everything to win this year. if putin s goal was to devour ukraine, he s clearly failed. from the beginning he s underestimated ukraine and the west with severe consequences within russia. and you have been following the alex murdaugh murder trial, we re not going to get into that testimony. instead, i m going to tell you about what this case tells us about generational power and privilege and the oligarchs living among us in america. we begin tonight with the somber one-year anniversary of russia s illegal and unprovoked invasion of ukraine. the war remains the biggest threat to peace and security in europe since the end of the cold war. the scale of human suffering is unimaginable for so many. according to the united nations, nearly 18 million p
good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. a global superpower says it is calling for peace. early friday morning, beijing time, the chinese government released a 12 point plan which is calling, quote, china s which it s colin, quote, china s position on the political settlement of the ukraine crisis. while lacking in specifics, the document goes out of its way to urge russia not to use nuclear weapons in this war. quote, nuclear weapons must not be used and nuclear wars must not be fought. the threat or use of nuclear weapons should be a post, and quote. the document also takes a swipe at nato, with a section titled, quote, abandoning the cold war mentality. and it to cries u.s. anxious russia, quote unilateral sanctions and maximum pressure cannot solve the issue. they only create new problems. in a wide-ranging press conference today, ukrainian president zelenskyy seemed to signal and openness to a good faith peace plan from china and he says he hopes to meet with chin
extensive and liberal scale that our circumstances would call for jefferson considered the university to be one of his three greatest achievements with the declaration of independence and the virginia statute for religious freedom. in his post-presidential years he was able to devote himself to fulfilling the dream of an academical village. today, we ll hear from andrew j o shaughnessy about jefferson s aspirations for his university. his book is a twin biography of jefferson and retirement and of the university of virginia s first years in seeking to understand figures from the past the ability to read their own recorded thoughts is immensely valuable today s author andrew j. o shaughnessy used founders online in researching. this book founders online a website hosted by the national archives through the national historical publications and records commission has transcriptions of thousands of documents written by and to the nation s founders. jefferson s letter to peel is e
his book is a twin biography of jefferson and retirement and of the university of virginia s first years in seeking to understand figures from the past the ability to read their own recorded thoughts is immensely valuable today s author andrew j. o shaughnessy used founders online in researching. this book founders online a website hosted by the national archives through the national historical publications and records commission has transcriptions of thousands of documents written by and to the nation s founders. jefferson s letter to peel is easily accessible on founders online and that portal also gives us the context for the title of today s book. in an 1820 letter at the end of a proud description of the new university jefferson told us correspondent. this institution will be based on the limitable freedom of the human mind. for here. we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead nor to tolerate any error. so long as reason is left free to combat it. andrew jaya