congressman mark alford, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. congressman, your party, the republican party, has control of the house of representatives and the house is in chaos. why? well, republicans are independent thinkers. we always have been and we always will be. republicans are made up of entrepreneurs, businessmen and women, conservatives who appreciate capitalism, who appreciate america for what we are. it s the land of individuals. and so when you re trying to herd 220 some odd individuals in one room, it s kind of like herding cats. we all have our own opinions, we have our own districts who we were sent to represent, in my case, some 775,000 individuals from just south of kansas city in the heart of america. but those individuals cannot be happy with what they ve seen in recent weeks and months. that is a party that is at each other s throats, which got rid of a speaker, which you felt was a big mistake, i believe, but it happened anyway. now a new speaker is in pla
clear and direct contact was necessary to avoid accidents or misunderstandings. earlier, mr xi described china s relationship with the us as the most important in the world. president biden made his comments at a news conference that mr xi didn t attend. i welcome the positive . steps we ve taken today, and it s important for the world to see - that we re implementing the approach in the best traditions i of american diplomacy. we re talking - to our competitors and the key. and just talking, just - being blunt with one another, so there s no misunderstanding, |as a key element to maintainingj global stability and delivering for the american people. - and in the months ahead, we re going to continue to preserve i and pursue high level diplomacy | with the prc in both directionsl to keep the lines of communication open, including between president xi and me. he and i agreed that each one of us could pick up i the phone, call directly- and be heard immediately. i think i kno
carlo rovelli, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen. i want to begin with a thought about your youth, because when you were young, you were a revolutionary. you wanted dramatic change, to destroy the status quo. i just wonder if you ve brought that spirit into your physics, into your study of the universe. yes. it was not.notjust me. it was a big chunk of my generation that had this dream of changing the world, right? and then making a world better without wars, without borders. we got disappointed. we sort of thought, well, the rest of the planet, the rest of the people doesn t really want to change the world so much. and i think it s a moment of disappointment that i found something else which was revolutionary, which was modern physics. so i shifted from political revolution to scientific revolution. and what sense can you describe physics as potentially revolutionary? because we have a worldview in which we think we know everything. right? this is up, this is
last time you and i chatted, linda, you said you were only having one meal a day and you were only putting the heating on for an hour. is that still the same? the heating s more or less the same, but i am eating a bit more. i ve got to, with me health. i have lost weight. for steph, a single working mum with two kids, she s now working an extra day a week, but isn t feeling a financial benefit. how much is childcare now? it s £50 a day. and then, obviously, - because i m a single mum, i have 15 hours free. so my 15 hours cover my monday and half of my tuesday. - so then i have to fund half- of tuesday and my full wednesday. so, despite working an extra day, because of the extra costs of childcare for that day, you re not really any better off, are you? no. the money that i earn for that extra day covers my childcare. it also covers the cost of living, the rise in food costs, - and it covers a rent increase. the government s announced that from september 2025, working paren
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