i was texting with friends in southern california, the general sing consensus, here we go again. obviously they ve had problems like this before. if we look at the look at the firefighters trying to save the neighborhood, the winds will play a part. we see the right screen. one stream of water seems so insignificant against flames that forced 100,000 people to evacuate. the weather is pretty much what we had in the bay area yesterday. santa anna winds, 60 or 70 mile-per-hour winds are. i don t know if they were clocking where the homes were. the area by the way, the creek fire, 15,000 acres. they are no stranger to fires in this particular area off of the 210 interstate 5. let s check in with sue paulson and see if he has an update. 45 to 50 is what i m hearing. i ve seen video. it looks stronger it s coming down the hill and it looks like 50+. also there are major freeways close. it can be isolated in the canyons as well. there s no doubt about it, east, northeast bree
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thank you so much for having me on bbc hardtalk. it is a great pleasure. i think it s fair to say, bassem, a lot has happened in the last seven years or so since you left your home country, egypt. when you consider your life today, how much emotional pull does your home country have on you as you sit there in california 7 well, much less than in the past. i think this was an interesting journey for me. the past ten years, i have gone into changes in my life that i have never thought i would ever go through. i was a heart surgeon, and then i found myself hosting the biggest show in the middle east and then having to leave all of that behind and come to reinvent myself and start all over again in a country that is not mine, performing to an audience that s not mine, with a language that s my second language. so i m kind of like, i m in a place now that i m kind of like looking forward instead of looking back. well, i m sad to say i m going to make you look back a little bit bef
it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the world s autocrats do not like to be laughed at. now, that is a political reality my guest today, bassem youssef, understands all too well cos he made his name and won an audience of tens of millions with a satirical comedy show during egypt s popular uprising more than a decade ago. but that revolution quickly morphed into authoritarianism, and youssef fled to the us, taking his gift for comedy with him. did he and do we still expect too much from political satire? bassem youssef in los angeles, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me on bbc hardtalk. it is a great pleasure. i think it s fair to say, bassem, a lot has happened in the last seven years or so since you left your home country, egypt. when you consider your life today, how much emotional pull does your home country have on you as you sit there in california? well, much less than in the past. i think this was an interesting journey fo
we begin in the middle east, where the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to go ahead with an offensive in gaza s southernmost most city rafah whatever happens in hostage negotiations. nearly 1.5 million palestinians are sheltering there. mr netanyahu s comments follow widespread reports that a framework for a pause in the fighting along with the release of hostages has been formulated by international mediators in paris. well, victory is within reach and you can t have victory until you eliminate hamas. how close is in reach? hamas is a terrorist organisation that once we begin the rafah operation, the intense phase of the fighting is weeks away from completion, not months, weeks away from completion. and that is.we ve already destroyed 18 out of the 2a hamas terrorist battalions. so we have..and four of them are concentrated in rafah. we can t leave the last hamas stronghold without taking care of it. obviously, we have to do it. but understand too th