that s hilarious. good morning, welcome to morning joe, i can t tell if it s funny or not. i am snack sure. willie, was it funny? was it a funny? it was supposed to be a ted lasso s quote which is why he s coming under mockery this morning. it s halloween. we love it. willie, i am wondering what do you think of facebook changing their name? if moussilini thought about this in 1994, hey, wait, my name is mourny. i thought it was the onion. they had a horrible let s call it a month since these documents leaked since francis hougan testified before congress. we learned so much and had many suspicions confirmed based on their internal documents and the answer from facebook is hey, we are called meta instead of facebook, is that better? the question is what will cheryl sandberg do if she was still working with the a company? she would change the name to meta, she just did. she disappeared. it s a disappearing act for good reason. i am just curious, we have jo
and we re starting with a busy night of european football. and all four british sides topping their groups in the europa league. brighton were celebrating after a very late goal at home to marseille meant they beat them to an automatic place in the last 16. it finished 1 0 at the amex. brighton willjoin west ham who also topped their group after beating freiburg 2 0. rangers, who beat real betis to keep sparta prague in second place, and liverpool, who went through regardless of their defeat to union saint gilloise. elsewhere, villa real beat rennes which means they take the top spot in group f but despite winning tonight, roma will have to play off after slavia prague stayed top of their group. well, liverpool were already safely through which gave the managerjurgen klopp the opportunity to give some of his star names a rest and take a look at the club s talented youngsters. for some, a really important experience and for others it was good for rhythm. so good performances a
in the bitter cold of winter, this deadly war grinds on, and big guns, provided by western partners, still play a crucial role. ukraine s 93rd brigade is stationed near bakhmut. they say the russians attack at least twice a day. theirjob, to stop them advancing. as the conflict turns to stalemate, ukrainian soldiers say they need the support of their international partners more than ever. it is demoralising for them to hear that, instead, america s funding for ukraine has ground to a halt. translation: if there is no support from the western i countries, then it s going to get really bad. russia will seize ukraine, then it will be the turn of the baltic states and poland. i don t think the russians will stop here. our conversation is interrupted by orders to destroy a new target. the crew has to be quick. after a long silence, they re told to stand down and hide the howitzer. but these soldiers worry their guns will remain silent for much longer without new us funding and sup
and diana ross helps bring the first glastonbury festival for three years to a glorious close. it s 7am in singapore and 1am in germany where leaders from the g7 group of nations have held their first day of talks in what will be a key week for diplomacy over the war in ukraine. borisjohnson says ukraine should not be forced into a peace settlement with russia. if that means losing territory. and president biden has been calling for western unity to hold, to defeat russia. our political editor chris mason reports from bavaria in germany. the leaders of the world s richest countries gather to work out what to do next about ukraine. they begin by mocking president putin. bare chested horseback! the canadian prime minister suggests they should mimic the russian leader by riding bareback on a horse, as he has done. beyond the jokes, though, there are real differences of emphasis and approach here about how much and for how long ukraine should be helped. the uk insists it must
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