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president biden welcomes barack and michelle obama back for the unveiling of their official white house portraits. i want to thank sharon sprung for capturing everything i love about michele, her grace, her intelligence and the fact that she s fine. we miss them. we begin tonight with steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist who is back in the news, usually for two reasons such as attempting to dismantle the west or as in this case trouble with the law. two years ago bannon was dragged off a billionaire s luxury yacht in handcuffs charged with defrauding donors as part of a fund-raising scam purportedly aimed at funding trump s border wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. now bon none lined his pockets $1 million in waldo nations. after trump pardoned bannon for milking his own supporters the manhattan s district attorney office opened its own investigation and that s because presidential pardons, well, they only apply to federal charges and cannot ....
look, really look at each other not as democrats and republicans and not as members of team red or blue but who we are, fellow americans. fellow human beings worthy of being treated with dignity and respect. i hope this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another. i hope this christmas season marks a fresh start for our nation. and to think i thought i was a semi fascist. who knew? mr. unity has been singing a different tune throughout his presidency calling republicans threats to democracy, comparing them to segregationists and claiming that they hate science. here s a small sample. watch this. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. trump and the extreme maga republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. jim crow 2.0 is about two insidious things, voter suppression and election subjec ....
the authorities in northern italy say they ll resume the search for survivors of an avalanche in the dolomites on monday. at least six mountaineers were killed and eight others injured when parts of a glacier collapsed sending snow, ice and rock cascading down the slopes of marmolada. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. singapore is a city state that has thrived in the era of globalisation, international supply chains and mobile workers. but what happens when the geopolitical weather changes? when great power hostility and economic nationalism hold sway? well, my guest is singapore s long serving home minister, k shanmugam. is singapore s political and economic balancing act sustainable in a world of rising tensions? minister k shanmugam in singapore, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, mr sackur. let me ask you about singapore s model. it was sort of set up by lee kuan yew. it s been in effect for well over six decades. it combines ec ....
is singapore s political and economic balancing act sustainable in a world of rising tensions? minister k shanmugam in singapore, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, mr sackur. let me ask you about singapore s model. it was sort of set up by lee kuan yew. it s been in effect for well over six decades. it combines economic openness with a real sense of political control and social control. do you think that model needs to change? well, i disagree with the assumptions in your question about political control and economic control. you know, in the last elections, we had 61%, the opposition had 40% of the votes. voting is free and fair. the reason why the pap has managed a substantial dominance is because in 1965, when the pap came to. when we took independence, or when we had independence thrust upon us, gdp per capita was about $500. today it s $55,000. it s. on any index that you look at education, healthcare, housing, law and order we are, you know, in the top three or ....
ukraine is still independent, and has fought russian invaders to a standstill. at the cost, which is almost unimaginable, or was until february 24th six months ago. it changed so much for ukraine, europe, superpower relations, and the nato alliance. for people living worlds away of the fighting, vladimir putin would prefer we pay less attention to it all tonight. instead, because of just how important it is, that is where we begin the broadcast. reminding you again, showing you again, the moments of savage brutality, and the moments of hope over the past six months. we are all here, our military are here, citizens in society are here. we are all here defending our independence. our state, and it will remain so. glory to our defenders, glory to our women, glory to ukraine. that is volodymyr zelenskyy just hours into the invasion. not fleeing the country or evacuating to lviv, or eastern poland as some had expected. standing firm, as alleys today, the former actor a ....