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square. they ll help us ring in 2024. 2023 was a year like no other in big news, politics, movies, music, culture, science, sports and more. everyone seemed to be going all in, all the time. and now it s time to take a look at the whole crazy year william our guests laura coats, john berman, charlotte wilder, coy wire and max foster. we re playing for keeps. it s all the best, all the worst, 2023. welcome. it s worth asking, how did we get through the past 12 months? many of us hoped it would be easier than recent years and there were moments of accomplishment, community and joy. but we were also challenged, divided over issues and often unable to agree even on what we want, and it was wildly apparent where we begin with the biggest news stories of the year. we are the union. the worst big news for many americans started in their pocketbooks. the economy this year was an absolute emotional roller coaster. unemployment was down, earnings were up, at any momen ....
[sirens] [applause] good evening to all of you. [applause] [applause] i am beginning to recognize the fact that nothing is true. nothing. it is all down to perception. my immediate family is gone, but that is life. it s the same thing with every family, that somebody will be left in the end. and this time in life i have fantastic memories, but everybody s memory is different so they re just my memories, you know? i know that morris and robin would ve had a different kind of memory. i remember barry saying that when they were going to be really famous. and we said oh yeah, he s a big brother, you know? we kind of saw ourselves as triplets, rather than me and maurice being twins. where the same polls growing up, then it became impossible to see each other as normal brothers. my night christmas there was an acoustic guitar at the end of my bed, and robin and morris started to collaborate and producing with me. we started doing gigs as a teenage act. ....
well you can tell by the way i use my walk you may look the other way ah, ah, ah, ah staying alive how did you people get back here. come on, come on. get him out of here. thank you very much. good evening to all of you. living for my life everything a man could want to do i could never see tomorrow no one said a word about the sorrow how can you stop the rain from falling down how can you stop the sun from shining what makes the world go around mend my broken heart and let me [ cheers and applause ] i am beginning to recognize the fact that nothing is true. nothing. it s all down to perception. my immediate family is gone. but that s life. it s the same thing with every family, that someone will end up in the end. and this time in life, i have fantastic memories. but everybody s memory is different. so, they re just my memories, you know? i know that maw rhymaurice and robin would have had a different kind of ....
of our fallen members and our hearts go out to their families and we ll talk to a few people today that military families. we ll talk to veterans, i cant wait to see their take on memorial day and what this day means to this. to me personally, this is the day to remember those who lost their lives so we can sit up here and feel safe everyday. to them and their families, thank you so very much. todd: it is sacrifice and we note the sacrifice. when you stop to break it undo, i have typically 18, 19, 20-year-old kid, basically a child, deciding that the virtues of our nation and our founding are so important to them, they are willing to put the rest of their life on the line for those values. it really hits home. there is a parent, two parents, entire family that is worried about that decision, worried about that individual. for some of these individuals we ll interview today, their children did not come home, they are proud of their sons, ares proud of daughters, becaus ....
presidential elections where the economy and immigration are key voter concerns. huge political rallies have been held to drum up support. ukraine s most senior security official tells the bbc the country is ready to launch its long expected counter offensive against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov describes the planned assault as an historic opportunity . a man arrested after a car crashed into the gates of downing street earlier this week, has been released while under investigation. he was detained on thursday on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving. now on bbc news, amol rajan interviews: watergate to trump. in every trade, there are certain names that are held up as the gold standard. when i started out in newspapers in fact, for most of the past 50 years there have been two names that stood apart and stood above any others in journalism. bob woodward and carl bernstein were the reporters at the heart of the watergate scandal ....