despite my relative ignorance, total ignorance about the traitors. i have still not found my tie, though. have you not? no. but the merit of losing it and, actually, i think it was worth losing it for this is that i briefly got to go on scott mills show on radio 2. 0h, 0k. because he asked me, well, where is your tie, have you found it? so i sent him a little voice note saying, you know and this is still true as we record now i don t know where it has gone. and the ripples then spread out and even i got dragged into this because martin lewis put out a tweet to his, like, 10 million followers saying that i had probably nicked it. so i then had to sort of defend myself. i haven t worn a tie for several years. i haven t worn one all day yet because i still can t find it. anyway, i am going to take my traitors cloak of because, a, it is quite hot. also, we did ask the traitors if we could have one of the real ones. they said, no, they are wearing it on the one show tonig
macroeconomics this is bbc news. the headlines: prince harry wins his phone hacking case and is awarded £140,000 in damages. he describes it as a great day for truth . what now for ukraine after hungary s prime minister blocks a $55 billion eu aid package and threatens to pull the handbrake on future payments. a un report says the taliban is sending female abuse survivors to prison because shelters have closed. let s turn now to the war in ukraine because hungary has blocked more than $50 billion in eu aid for ukraine, hours after agreement was reached on starting membership talks with kyiv. after late night negotiations, the hungarian prime minister victor orban posted on social media: he then left for the night. speaking to reporters, charles michel the president of the european council focused instead on what he saw as a positive the opening of those membership talks with both ukraine and moldova. he added that the eu would attempt to reach a unanimous
going green we meet the teenage entrepreneur, who rents real christmas trees each year to save them from being thrown out after the festive period. hello and welcome to bbc news. a fierce arctic winter storm has triggered emergency alerts across large parts of the united states, and forced the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights. forecasters say the cold snap could bring the coldest christmas in decades. presidentjoe biden has encouraged everyone to heed warnings and bring forward christmas travel plans where possible. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. this is what it looks like when a bomb cyclone descends on north america. these huge banks of snow in north dakota are the result of an intense blizzard that swept through the state. conditions that are set to engulf almost the entire country, just in time for christmas. but this is no winter wonderland. the storm could prove deadly. great swathes of the us will experience some of the lowest temperature
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but will this time be any different? where in god s name is our backbone? expresident trump revenge tour to wyoming. the people of wyoming are going to tell her, liz, you re fired! but after big losses in georgia, is he dominated the gop like he once did? q. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby philip. this sunday, a grim portrait of the state of this nation. vice president horizon comforted a family, one of the ten black people killed in a massacre carried out by a white supreme sifted this month. and president biden as we speak is on his way to uvalde, texas, consoblg even more families marked by the scourge of gun violence. 19 children and two teachers were killed in their elementary school classroom this weak. their families will be forever changed. but grief this morning is turning to fury. we are now learning that the police stood outside that classroom for nearly an hour, instead