written about his wife s alzheimer s, be chosen to represent ireland at the eurovision song contest? hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news. the australian tennis star nick kyrgios has admitted assaulting a former girlfriend, but has escaped conviction. his guilty plea in a court in canberra came after his lawyers failed to have the charge dismissed on mental health grounds. the court was told that kyrgios pushed his then partner to the ground, during an argument in december 2021. the magistrate called the incident a single act of stupidity or frustration , when sparing him a criminal record. our correspondent phil mercer is outside the court in canberra. take us through the facts of this case. well, next krygios s lawyer said that the assault, in january 2021 on his former partner, was completely out of character, and genuinely an isolated incident. his legal team had tried to have the charges against him overturned on mental health grounds. that f
it was meant to cement a newly warm anglo french relationship but the planned three day visit by king charles and the queen consort camilla to france this weekend has been suspended at the request of president macron, because of escalating protests and some violence over the french government s proposals for pension reform. more than a50 people were arrested on thursday, and am members of the security forces were injured during the most violent day of protests since the start of the year, according to the french interior ministry. more than one million people took to the streets that day to protest against the retirement age being raised from 62 64. from paris, here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. tear gas. riot police. this is paris at the moment. there are piles of uncollected rubbish in the streets and angry demonstrators on the streets. furious with president macron over his plans to raise the state pension age to 64. matters appear to be deteriorating and
chelsea manning information. any method that was made i available, i would have taken. there was nothing that was going to stop me. | you give clinton a pass and you go after trump forjust mishandling classified information, you ll have a real problem in america. welcome to hardtalk s look back at another year of compelling interviews. i m stephen sackur. when historians review 2022, they will surely begin with a simple, grim observation. this year saw the first all out invasion of a european country since world war ii. as the year began, vladimir putin was preparing the biggest geopolitical gamble of his life, transforming russia s low intensity military operation in ukraine into a full scale assault aimed at installing a moscow friendly regime in kyiv. as putin massed his invasion force, ukrainians pleaded with the west to act, to make the kremlin think again. the main message let s show to the kremlin that you are seriously understand the all threats and you can make thi
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