the stars and the black holes that appeared in our universe 13 billion years ago. tonight with the context, stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics, and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. hello, welcome to the programme. donald trump knew there was no evidence to support his wild conspiracy theories that the election was stolen. his attorney general told him, his chief of staff told him, his white house council pat cippilone told him. but trump refused to believe the reality. today, the jan 6 committee honed in on an extraordinary series of meetings in dec 2020, in which white house staff got into a screaming match with trump loyalists, who somehow had gained access to the president office. rudi giulliani, general michael flynn and the lawyer sydney powell were feeding donald trump theories, without any evidence, that the election had been stolen. he said every video the judg
but there has been widespread international concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. our correspondent anna foster is injerusalem. welcome to you, and we ve been talking for more than a week about the latest round of talks and it seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. yes. seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal.- on hamas to reach a deal. yes, we are at the on hamas to reach a deal. yes, we are at the same on hamas to reach a deal. yes, we are at the same stage on hamas to reach a deal. yes, we are at the same stage where an . are at the same stage where an israeli deal has been put on the table and was described at the start of the week by the us secretary of state as extraordinarily generous and it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal there have been some movements in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. from israel s point of view its pri
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palestinians sheltering there. our correspondent, anna foster is injerusalem. i asked her about increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. yeah. we re at the same stage samantha where an israeli deal has been put on the table. it was described at the start of the week by the us secretary of state, antony blinken, as extraordinarily generous. and it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal, there had been some movement in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. now, from israel s point of view, of course, its priority at the moment is trying to ensure the release of all the remaining hostages that are being held in gaza. one of hamas s key priorities is to try and get some sort of agreement towards a permanent ceasefire rather than a temporary one. so while it seems that the two sides are moving closer together, there is still a disconnect, i think, on that point. and i think also on the number of hostages to be released. now, origina