alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden
sexually abused a woman and publicly defamed her even after he was ordered by a court of law to stop. now, another jury is deciding not just how much he should be held liable for the damage his words have done, but how much he should be punished for those words as well. in other words, how much money he should pay e. jean carroll in punitive damages, just like yesterday, the courtroom was wild again today, judge kaplan, again, admonished alina habba for arguing with his rulings, this time telling her, quote, you are on the verge of spending some time in lockdown. now sit down. then after the jury was brought in and e. jean carroll s lawyer was in the middle of her closing statements, donald trump abruptly stood up and walked out of the court according to our reporters in the room. that s when the judge said, quote, the record will reflect that mr. trump rose and walked out of the courtroom, said the judge. what did carroll s lawyers say that got under his skin and how will th
stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure. you believe that 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 us any more if they did not. they wouldn t be around us any more if they didn t. the mouse that didn t care about surviving wouldn t pass on its genes. so we come for from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going, but we have these big brains that s part of our survival mechanism, if you like that allow us to see the future, to generalise and we re conscious of ourselves as individuals, and that means we re conscious of our own deaths. and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that one day, all of their efforts will come to nothing. and so, if we look back through human history, what we see is humanity struggling to make se
which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. one of the key drivers of human thought and behaviour throughout history has been knowledge of our own mortality. from childhood each of us knows we will die. religion, philosophy and science all wrestle with that fact and have in different ways embraced the quest for immortality. my guess today, stephen cave, director of the cambridge institute for technology and humanity is at the centre of a growing debate about the merits of extending human longevity. 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 that 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 us any more if they did not. the mouse that did not care about surviving would not pass on its genes. so we come for from a long line of creature
we ve got our own show to make, so let s get on with this episode of newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s james here in the studio in westminster. and it s chris in westminster, too. here we are, and one story that s dominated this week, chris, hasn t it, which has been this post office scandal? but there s one story going to dominate next week, i think, quite likely, in so much as we can forecast. what s that? it is rwanda. so it s the return of the conversation about how you deal with illegal migration. and the government is keen to have this idea of sending folk to rwanda. as newscasters will be aware, it s been getting relatively long in the tooth as an idea, but it hasn t yet happened for a million and one legal reasons. there are also very transparent differences of opinion within the conservative party about how you do it, how you make it work, can you make it work, and what s the best way of making it work? there was a bit of a to do before christmas