It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london, and 8 00pm in the evening in washington, where in eight days donald trump will become president of the United States. Mr trump seems to be at odds with some of his key cabinet nominees. His choice for new head of the cia, mike pompeo, on the left, strongly endorsed the work of the Us Intelligence community, hours after it was criticised by the President Elect. And generaljames mattis, on the right, nominated for defence secretary, accused russia of trying to break up nato, in contrast to mr trumps wish for much closer ties with president putin. 0ur Correspondent Nick Bryant reports from washington. A week before inauguration day, it is usually an air of expectancy that youll find on capitol hill, where the stage is being set foertrump to take the oath of office. But the mood now is much more feverish, much more surreal, as front page allegations swirl that russia has compromising information about the President Elect which would make him sus
It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london, and 8 00pm in the evening in washington, where in eight days donald trump will become president of the United States. Mr trump seems to be at odds with some of his key cabinet nominees. His choice for new head of the cia, mike pompeo, on the left, strongly endorsed the work of the Us Intelligence community, hours after it was criticised by the President Elect. And generaljames mattis, on the right, nominated for defence secretary, accused russia of trying to break up nato, in contrast to mr trumps wish for much closer ties with president putin. 0ur Correspondent Nick Bryant reports from washington. A week before inauguration day, it is usually an air of expectancy that youll find on capitol hill, where the stage is being set foertrump to take the oath of office. But the mood now is much more feverish, much more surreal, as front page allegations swirl that russia has compromising information about the President Elect which would make him sus
Penned by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Every week, a columnist for the new york times. Nicholas kristof delves deeply into the issue of our day, reporting on poverty, equality, conflict zones and of course the rights of women and children both in this country and abroad. A new work about to be published a path appears cowritten with his wife, sheryl wudunn. Good to have you on this program. Good to be on. I want to jump into this in a second after i ask what you expect ill ask about. Recently you did a couple columns that got the attention of the nation. Your columns tend to do that. These two were about what happens when white folk just dont get it. About racial issues in this country. Why did you decide to write that . And tell me more, then, about the response you received. Well, i mean, im enormously concerned with opportunity gaps in this country, and i think that there are an awful lot of people in this country who just dont want to talk abo
The chancellor of germany Angela Merkel had tough questions to president obama. She made a phone call to the president to ask whether the u. S. Had been tapping her cellphone, spying on her private conversations. Even though germany is a strong ally to america she warned spying would constitute a breach of trust. Alan fisher has the latest. The German Government must have been sure something was going on, going public with allegations that the americans spied on Angela Merkels phone. The chancellor phoned the white house. I can assure you the president assured the chancellor of the germany that the u. S. Will not monitor. Listen again. I can tell you the president assured the United States is not monitoring and will not monitoring the communications of the chancellor missing are the words have not and did not. When asked whether it happened in the past the official line was repeated. Beyond that im not in position to comment publicly it comes days after nsa was accused of hacking diplo
Labour backbenchers lisa nandy and Jess Phillips join the contest to become the partys next leader. The 2019 book entitled no one is too small to make a difference is a collection of speeches by a swedish Climate Change activist, whats her name . Sharon . Greta thunberg. When greta became sharon, the Climate Change campaigner gets in on thejoke and changes her twitter name. And in this weeks click, the team takes a look at facial recognition technology, the future of space travel, and super fast sports cars. Thats in half an hour. The iranian president , hassan rouhani, has said america has made a strategic mistake by killing tehrans most senior military commander, and warned the us will face difficult days ahead. The funeral procession for Qassem Soleimani has been taking place in baghdad after he was killed by a drone strike at the citys airport on thursday night. President trump said he ordered the action to stop a war, not start one, and was not seeking regime change in iran. The F