today, a senior commander with the islamist hezbollah movement was reportedly killed in an apparent israeli drone strike in southern lebanon. and israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu was on the northern border today, where he signalled that he is prepared, if necessary, to escalate military operations in lebanon, with 80,000 israeli s now displaced from their homes. to the south, the death toll in gaza, stands at 23,000, according to the hamas run health ministry. and so intense is the fighting that several aid agencies have now begun withdrawing medics from the only functioning hospital in central gaza. on his visit to qatar, secretary blinken said washington has an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading and a warning to some members of the israeli government. palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow. they cannot, they must not, be pressed to leave gaza. we reject the statements by some israeli ministers and lawmak
is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands that is part of our survival mechanism allow us to see the future, to generalise and we are conscious of ourselves as individuals and that means we are conscious of our own death and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that all of their efforts will come to nothing safe we look back to human history, we see humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we find of human development is su
this will give the sheikh hasina her fourth consecutive term as prime minister, and herfifth overall. the election was boycotted by bangladesh s main opposition party, the bnp, which said the process was a sham. for more analysis we will speak to the head of the thomas law school. what does this election actually mean 21 considering the controversy around? $5 a the controversy around? as a matter of the controversy around? as a matter of background, - the controversy around? sis . matter of background, since independence the conduct of free and fair elections in bangladesh has proven to be contentious issue. there has been a sense of great mistrust amongst major political parties in the country with respect to conducting free, fair and impartial general elections. and it is for this reason in 1996 the two major political parties of the countries including the ruling party and the bangladesh national party reached a consensus which led to the incorporation of the system of n
for nearly 30 years. so let s take a look at the finalists and winners of the 2023 rory peck awards. first up, the rory peck award for news, for films that capture the immediacy of a story. in this film, guillermo galdos gained rare access to one of the world s most dangerous crime gangs, the sinaloa drug cartel. as restrictions on the cultivation and sale of marijuana have eased in parts of the us, the cartel is increasingly involved in the production and distribution of the dangerous opioid fentanyl. covering this story isn t easy. manyjournalists have been killed trying to do so. using his extensive contacts and years of experience reporting from mexico, galdos was able to report from inside a fentanyl lab, where he met some of the young men making this deadly drug. these guys are young farmers who grew up in the mountains, and they ve seen their grandfathers and theirfathers being involved either in the marijuana business or in the opium business. and nowadays, you know,