to travel outside of tel aviv, jerusalem and beersheeva. the us embassy said it had made the order out of an abundance of caution , due to fears about a possible attack by iran. earlier the israeli defence minister, yoav gallant, has told his us counterpart that israel will respond appropriately if it is directly attacked by iran. washington continues to try to dissuade iran from launching a retaliatory strike following the attack on its consulate in syria last week. let s speak to our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega, in jerusalem. heightened sense of alert. what more can you tell us? can you tell us? four days we have been talking can you tell us? four days we have been talking about can you tell us? four days we have been talking about those can you tell us? four days we have been talking about those warnings | been talking about those warnings that have come from american officials saying the iranian response is a matter of when and not if. ithink response
sathnam sanghera, welcome to hardtalk. it s nice to be back. it s great to have you back, and you are back with a new book, which i have here empireworld. it s your take on just how massive the impact of the british empire was and still is on the world. you certainly don t undersell your idea, it s subtitled how british imperialism has shaped the globe. i really do believe that. i think the british empire explains so much about people s daily lives around the world, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the bbc world service used to be known as the bbc empire service. it explains so much about our daily news. you ve just come back from guyana there s a border dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, there s a gap between the way in which britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did before we go aro
who was cleared of murdering his ex wife and her friend in 1994, has died. he was 76 and had cancer. he became one of the most notorious figures in recent american history when his televised murder trial gripped the nation and the world. the acquittal came after a slow speed car chase by police when oj simpson fled on the day he was due to turn himself in. both the car chase and the murder trial were watched by tens of millions around the world at a time when rolling news was in its infancy. 0ur los angeles correspondent emma vardy reports. this is one of those scenes that would only happen, honestly, here in southern california. tonight, oj simpson is a fugitive. watched by millions, oj simpson famously led police on a car chase through los angeles, after becoming the main suspect in the murder of his ex wife and her friend. around the world, viewers watched the unfolding drama as people came onto the street cheering him on. couldn t actually see oj, but we saw a guy driving
sensation , has died. he was 76 and had cancer. the african american running back was also a successful hollywood actor. but his fame turned to infamy in 1994 when he was accused of murdering nicole brown, and a friend of hers in los angeles. journalist david margolick covered the oj simpson trial for the new york times he told me what that covering the trial had been like. well, yeah, it was really at the centre of the world for several months. i mean, covering it was unlike any experience that i ever had before. everybody was watching it. everybody was talking about it. there was enormous pressure on covering it well and sensitively, and it was an enormous professional challenge to get through it. a professional challenge because in part it was so divisive, wasn t it, in the way that americans saw the case, the trial and indeed the verdict? well, that s true. and i think that on the one hand, you could get buried in the testimony and the day to day challenges of covering a
leaving many people without power. hello, welcome to the world today, an hour of international news. he was one of the most divisive figures in modern america. oj simpson has died at the age of 76. he was a football star and turned into a movie star, and then a murder suspect. it became known as the trial of the century. our los angeles correspondent emma vardy has been looking back at his life. watched by millions, oj simpson famously led police on a car chase through los angeles. on a car chase through los angeles after becoming the main suspect in the murder of his ex wife and herfriend. from an impoverished childhood, he had gone on to become one of the greatest american football players in history, and a hollywood actor. but he will be forever remembered for his nine month televised trial for the double murder that transfixed america. accused of killing his former wife in a jealous rage, at one point, oj simpson was shown struggling to try on a pair of gloves found at th