things to know for this thursday, april 6th former vice president, mike pence, cleared to testify in the justice department s january 6th investigation. pence announced he will not appeal a judge s order. and san francisco police investigating the stabbing death of cash app founder bob lee. no suspect has been named. also today, the tennessee house is planning a vote to expel three of its democratic members. republicans want them out for violating house rules during a gun reform protest. also israeli forces raiding jerusalem s all aqsa mosque for a second time just hours apart, actually palestinian officials report that at least six people have been injured and set to tee off the masters are playing host to golf s biggest stars, as many are heading to augusta to get today to get a glimpse of tiger woods this morning starts right now. papa you re really going to the masters, aren t you? that s why you re there. you i wish i ve never been to the masters, but maybe i will stay a
elegant dinners. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it s not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it s good to be with you. it s good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world s highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat? no, not at all. infact, i mean, maybe i should start with your introduction, because, you know, your introduction was the common wisdom. you know, that democracy is in decline, that autocracy is ascendant. in fact, i think it s a bit more complicated than that. i mean, we are seeing the rise of autocratic voices, you know, the trumps of the world, in western democracie
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iranian state television says that the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners linked to protests. iranian media outlets say that a letter from the head of the judiciary said that a number of people, especially the young, had committed wrongful actions and crimes because of incitement and propaganda by the enemy. taraneh stone, from the bbc s persian service, joins me now. thank you for coming in. talk us through, first of all, what we know about what has happened here. figs through, first of all, what we know about what has happened here. as you mentioned, about what has happened here. as you mentioned. the about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme leader - about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme leader has . mentioned, the supreme leader has agreed to pardon and commute sentences of tens of people who are imprisoned or who are waiting
we begin with the recovery efforts under way off the south carolina coastline following that dramatic takedown of a suspected chinese spy balloon yesterday. the u.s. military blasting the balloon out of the sky after it drifted over the atlantic near myrtle beach. president biden saying he ordered the military to take it down on wednesday. now, efforts are under way to recover the debris and analyze it to find out what it may have been doing as it drifted across the u.s. over the last few days. chinese is accusing the u.s. of overreacting. we re covering this from all angles from the nation s capital to the coast where the balloon was shot down. let s start with diane gallagher in surfside beach, south carolina, where the recovery operation is under way, even though the conditions right now are allwful. what are you hearing about the search and recovery efforts of the debris? reporter: the weather not exactly clear as it was yesterday when everybody here in the myrtle beach