Heavy monsoon rains. As we count down to the moon landing 50 years ago, we talk live to a former nasa astronaut. Whats it really like to be up in space . Announcer live from our studios in london and singapore. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello and a warm welcome. Its 1am in the morning here in london, 8am in singapore and 8pm in washington, where the four Democratic Congress women told to go back to where from they came from by President Trump have accused him of violating his oaths and american values. The four women said mr trump had been openly racist towards them and that his attacks were the agenda of white nationalists. Despite the occupant of the white houses attempts to marginalise us and to silence us, please know that we are more than four people. We ran on a mandate to advocate for and represent those ignored, left out and left behind. Our squad is big. Our squad includes any person committed to build a more equitable and just world, and that is the world we want t
as a western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch . but when you look around the african continent today girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender based violence how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. there s a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a writer with a mission? well, now, in retrospect, i suppose i could describe myself as a writer with a mission. but i never was aware that i had a mission when i started to write, you see. it didn t work it doesn t work like that. i maen, i don t sit at my desk and say, now i ve got to depict this, and depict that. no. first of all, i was rather young when i started writing, so i didn t even have any notion of where my would be read, or how, and stuff like that. so it wasn t a conscious decision, but
joining us are their royal highnesses, the crown princess victoria of sweden and prince daniel. your royal highness, you want to say a few words of welcome and to tell us a little bit about where exactly we are in your palace? well, thank you. so nobel laureates, ladies and gentlemen, viewers, i d like to wish you a warm welcome to the royal palace here in stockholm and to the bernadotte library. this library holds over 100,000 books that used to belong to the kings and queens of the house of bernadotte. this is a very special library in that sense. but we re not here to read. we re here to listen. and we re here to listen to the nobel laureates, to their knowledge and wisdom and their contributions to science and economics. so thank you all forjoining today. thank you for hosting us. thank you, your royal highness. thank you. welcome to nobel minds and the first of our two programmes. laureates, this is the first time that you ve been brought together in discussion on televi
multiple generations of families are said to have been killed, seemingly caught unawares. translation: we were having dinner, when suddenly the bombing started - without any warning. in an instant, our house collapsed. the victims were taken to the nearby al aqsa hospital. in a population as young as this, children are so often the victims. this incident already has one of the highest single death tolls since this war began and it is expected to rise. israel maintains it tries to avoid civilian casualties, but the people of gaza are paying a huge price for this war. the idf released new footage showing what it says are tunnels under the strip used for military purposes. translation: hamas operates from civilian areas. it uses them to cover its terrorist activity. it is a very complex challenge that we face, and we do it well so our forces in the field achieve good results like the brigade that found the tunnel network. while the vast majority of destruction has been i
the words ofjesus seem more than ever relevant, do to others as you would have them do to you. such values are universal, drawing together our abrahamic family of religions, and other belief systems, across the commonwealth and wider world. they remind us to imagine ourselves in the shoes of our neighbours and to seek their good as we would our own. so, on this christmas day, my heart and my thanks go to all who are serving one another, all who are caring for our common home and all who see and seek the good of others, not least the friend we do not yet know. in this way, we bring out the best in ourselves. i wish you a christmas of peace on earth and goodwill to all, today and always. # while shepherds watched their flocks by night # all seated on the ground # the angel of the lord came down # and glory shone around all: # fear not, said he # for mighty dread # had seized their troubled mind # glad tidings of greatjoy i bring # to you and all mankind # to you in david