you are watching bbc news. next it s time for ian hislop s 2022 in conversation with amol rajan. even by recent standards, 2022 has been a tumultuous year in news. russia launched a war in europe. her late majesty queen elizabeth ii died just months after her platinum jubilee. and britain went through three prime ministers and even more chancellors. one man who s tried to make sense of it is ian hislop, whether on tv or as editor of private eye s fortnightly magazine and latest annual. i visited his office for a conversation not just about recent news, but also why it s been a turn off for some and why we need proper journalism more than ever. ian, thank you so much for talking to me and to bbc news. let s start, if you re happy to, with a few kind of reflections on this year, because in recent years the news agenda has often felt pretty crazy. yeah. ..and overwhelming, but this year, even more than most, we ve had war in europe, the death of her late majesty the queen, we ve
demonstrations take place in south western iran to mark the 40th day of mourning since a nine year old boy was killed during anti government protests. you re watching bbc news. now, ian hislop s 2022: in conversation with amol rajan. even by recent standards, 2022 has been a tumultuous year in news. russia launched a war in europe. her late majesty queen elizabeth ii died just months after her platinum jubilee. and britain went through three prime ministers and even more chancellors. one man who s tried to make sense of it is ian hislop, whether on tv or as editor of private eye s fortnightly magazine and latest annual. i visited his office for a conversation not just about recent news, but also why it s been a turn off for some and why we need proper journalism more than ever. ian, thank you so much for talking to me and to bbc news. let s start, if you re happy to, with a few kind of reflections on this year, because in recent years the news agenda has often felt pretty cra
i think it s hard not to draw the conclusion i think it s hard not to draw the conclusion that all this will require conclusion that all this will require a significant monetary policy require a significant monetary policy response. ukraine accuses russia of sabotaging two major gas pipelines to europe in what it describes as a terrorist attack . the kremlin says it s concerning . hundreds of thousands of people are without power in cuba after a hurricane hit the island with wind speeds over 120 mph. it s now heading for florida. and it s liverpool vs glasgow, in the battle to find out which city will host eurovision 2023. the labour leader sir keir starmer has told his party s conference that the united kingdom needs a fresh start and a way out of what he called the endless cycle of crisis caused by the conservatives. in his speech to delegates in liverpool, he was scathing in his criticism of the government s handling of the economy especially of last week s min
at the inception each of these investigations in the same way. by bringing in a special counsel to review the biden side of this document saga, i think the attorney general has done exactly that. he needs to now resource it in the same way that he has the other special counsel, he needs to step away from it. not subjected to the sort of day-to-day oversight that you have given maybe two u.s. attorney. that seems to be the way he s treating jack smith. i have no doubt he ll do those things. but from this point forward, laura, these cases will go, i suspect, in very different directions. they will follow the facts in the law, and so far, from what we ve seen, the facts of these two situations are very different. john, i m really interested, based on your prior role in particular, about the idea of why it is biden was tightlipped about the investigations. obviously, from the doj perspective, there is a level of gravitas that must be assigned, and you don t really want transpar
pope francis has called for an immediate end to the war in ukraine during his christmas day message. he was speaking in front of thousands of worshippers gathered in st peter s square in the vatican. you are watching bbc news. now, ian hislop s 2022, in conversation with amol rajan. even by recent standards, 2022 has been a tumultuous year in news. russia launched a war in europe. her late majesty queen elizabeth ii died just months after her platinum jubilee. and britain went through three prime ministers and even more chancellors. one man who s tried to make sense of it is ian hislop, whether on tv or as editor of private eye s fortnightly magazine and latest annual. i visited his office for a conversation not just about recent news, but also why it s been a turn off for some and why we need proper journalism more than ever. ian, thank you so much for talking to me and to bbc news. let s start, if you re happy to, with a few kind of reflections on this year, because in rece