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i m at the home and studio of one of sri lanka s most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. i m happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far you ve been influenced as both an artist and an archaeologist by sri lanka s past? i m totally influenced by that. i m totally, yes. everything i do has something to do with the past of sri lanka and the idea of the past, that we keep performing in the present. yeah. but it s notjust sri lanka s past, it s a particularly bloody past that you choose to focus on. why? that is what i call the history of the present. you know, we have a long history coming from, like, fifth century bc, and, you know, there s this great history of sri lanka or south asia. but the 20th century history is i call the history of the present, which is.defines myself and my a ....
have been killed. a metre of fresh snow has fallen, and many areas remain under threat of flooding. president biden has declared a state of emergency, freeing federal aid for the state. those are our top story this hour. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zainab badawi. i m just outside colombo, the capital of sri lanka. this beautiful island nation has been plunged into its worst economic crisis for more than 70 years. it led to widespread protests and forced the resignation of the president last year. and all this after a long running civil war in which around 100,000 died. i m at the home and studio of one of sri lanka s most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. i m happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far you ve been influenced as both an art ....
chances are, you haven t been to this place. chances are, this is a place you ve never seen. other than maybe blurry cellphone videos, old black-and-white newsreels from world war ii. chances are, bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar. after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected is happening here, and it s pretty incredible. in yangon, capital city of myanmar, it s dark. blackouts are frequent with the ancient power grid. what sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie, yellow-orange hue. for almost 100 years under british rule, this was rangoon. in 1948, after helping the british fight off the japanese, and with a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence. after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections, they came and went. the results ignored, opposition punished or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial pol ....
people that none of these locations were secure. meaning that documents found were in violation of national security policy and potentially u.s. national security law. but the president insists that the documents found in his locked garage were kept safe, because that s where he keeps his classic corvette stingray. the white house trying to clean up this colossal mess made by the president while facing mounting pressure to release a visitor law from his home in wilmington. karine jean-pierre facing a series of harsh questioning from reporters. watch. what is the white house trying to hide? nothing. when will the white house release a log of visitors to the wilmington house? you know, peter, you have asked this question or your colleagues have before, let s not forget what we did here in this white house. we instituted something that the last demonstration got rid of which is putting out to the white house, making sure that there was a white house blog, extensive ....
first time since 9/11/2001 because of a computer glitch. joining us to respond to the vicious racial attacks from small minded msndc viewers with joy reid. stay tuned. we get our grade at the end of the show. not getting enough a s. see what happens. begin this wednesday with fox news alert. joe biden caught mishandling classified documents yet again. second time this week, learning secret material from obama administration turned up in another private unsecured office accessed by joe biden as a private citizen. i think it is time for ma mar-a-lago-styled raid. why is this happening, twice in a week could this be result. maybe someone doesn t want joe to run for re-election. suspicious in terms of timing. they are the ones that personally approved of the raid at mar-a-lago at former donald trump s home. this is why the investigation into whether or not our fbi is politicized and doj weaponized is so important. many of america s powerful bureaucrats using powerful positi ....