Welcome to hardtalk, with me Zeinab Badawi in new york. My guest is the british actress, activist and model, jameela jamil. After breaking into the us and the critically acclaimed comedy series, the good place, she has been getting attention for her criticisms of celebrities like the kardashians, for their promotion of diet products to millions of young women on social media. Is her campaign to make us feel better about our bodies working . Jameela jamil, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, thanks for having me. So, you were in your early 20s, you decided you wanted to go into music presenting and you get this big break, you become the solo female host of a very prestigious show on radio in the uk. How important is it for you to break barriers . I think its very important for me to break barriers. I come from a particularly erased people. You know, you dont see south asians in positions of privilege very often, especially not in mainstream media. And so its something that means a lot to me bec
About the pg e power shut off in the south bay and we will bring it to you live. The time is 7 01 and lets get to breaking news weve been telling about all morning with a wildfire in moraga forcing evacuations overnight. Its called the barrel fire and appears to be knocked down. The all clear was issued for the Sanders Ranch neighborhood of moraga, great news and the fire started just before 1 00 this morning and burned 40 acres. It was burning near merrills star colonel north and sanders road south of st. Marys college and Moraga Police originally ordered evacuations for those along Sanders Ranch road, merrill drive and harrington road and now they say about 70 households out of the 140 evacuated are allowed to go back home. The people who live above merrill circle, you are still being evacuated. They are told to meet and gather at Saint Monica Church and there is another gathering area for evacuees, the safeway supermarket on moraga way. Officials with the Fire District there are clo
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Facebooks hugely ambitious plan to create its own Global Crypto currency has been under growing scrutiny since it was unveiled last month, and in a few hours time, the man in charge of the project will face a grilling from us lawmakers about what the company says is the future of money. Facebook says it wont go ahead with the launch of its libra crypto currency until regulatory concerns are addressed. The Digital Currency is particularly aimed at the estimated 1. 7 billion adults that the world bank claims dont have a bank account. China and india are top of the list. In a bid to convince people that it will be reliable, Facebook Says the currency will be backed by a reserve of assets, and has set up what it says is an independent body to oversee the currency, the libra association. Its 29 members include household names such as uber, visa and vodafone. But Central Banks have already expressed concern. Last week the boss of americas federal reserve, Jerome Powell, said libra raises man
Hour the hearing is still going on behind me, but already there have been several fiery moments, including some from senator sherrod brown, the ranking democrat on the committee. In his opening statement, he compared facebook to a toddler playing with matches and said that it would be delusional for anyone to trust facebook with their finances, when the company has already broken so many promises on privacy. He then tried to get david marcus, a facebook executive whos testifying to make his own promise, and that is to receive his salary in libra. Senator, if your question is whether i would trust all of my assets in libra, the answer is yes. Do you trust this enough to make your compensation paid fully in your currency senator, i would, because it is backed one for one with a reserve. You could have said yes at the beginning of the question, then senator, with respect, i wanted to clarify that were not trying to compete with Bank Deposits he has said that statement repeatedly, that fac