aida touma sliman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, thank you stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. let me ask you a simple first question how much has changed for you and for your community in israel since october the 7th? there was a life, that is not so easy before october 7th, but now it is unbearable after october 7th. we were thinking that our main struggle would be for peace, and the occupation of our own people in the west bank and gaza, and struggling for our rights to be equal citizens, and to have equality and to be able to develop our community in an equal way like thejewish community in israel. after october 7th, although before that we felt racism, after 7th october, we feel really threatened. we feel terrorised also on the establishment level from ministers and policies led by the government, and from the general public. we became suddenly as if terrorists in potential. i want to talk at length
on a singular message that this election will decide whether american democracies survives. will those words move voters? plus, the u.s. scrambling today to find partners for peace in the middle east, even as the israel-hamas war threatens to spin out of control. will secretary of state antony blinken s fourth trip overseas break new ground. and a new front in the war of transgender rights. the stakes are high whether trans americans can run for office using the names they choose. i ll talk to vanessa joy who says she was kis disqualified from her race in ohio because of a law she believes could put other trans candidates at risk. we start with the president s massive political gamble, betting that voters will rally around him as the defender of democracy and reject donald trump s dystopian vision of america. that message is at the heart of a big speech he ll give near valley forge this afternoon and is expected to be the framework for his campaign going forward. they d
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germany say police spoke to the suspect in thursday s hamburg shooting a month before the attack. one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere hits mauritius and madagascar twice and is now heading for mozambique for the second time. it may have broken the record as the longest lasting cyclone in history on record, it s been a named tropical cyclone now also 33 days. we start in the us, and regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, a major lender to tech companies after it ran into financial trouble. concerns triggered a sell off on global financial markets. it is the largest banking failure in the us since 2008. james clayton has been explaining how it happened. this will go down in silicon valley history, certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we have spoken to people today who have been able to withdraw their money from silicon valley bank, and some who haven t. one person i spoke to said they put
a month before the attack. one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere rips through mauritius and madagascar twice and is now heading for mozambique for the second time. it may have broken the record as the longest lasting cyclone in history, on record, it s been a named tropical cyclone now for 33 days. hello to our viewers on pbs and around the globe. we start in the us, and regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, a major lender to tech companies, after it ran into financial trouble. worries triggered a sell off on global financial markets. it s the largest banking failure in the us since 2008. james clayton has been explaining how it happened. this will go down in silicon valley history, certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we have spoken to people today who have been able to withdraw their money from silicon valley bank, and some who haven t. one person i spoke to said they put in a wire requ