With stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. Today, i m in the white cube gallery in london as cultural life starts to re establish itself after many months of lockdown, and my guests are the artistic duo gilbert and george. Now, for five decades, they ve been producing controversial, provocative work, and this exhibition they call new normal pictures. But is there anything normal about gilbert and george? gilbert and george, welcome, both of you, to hardtalk. Thanks very much. Very kind. Very nice. We re sitting in this gallery space. This is your latest exhibition. It s called new normal pictures. Is this your response to what the world has been through in the last year and more? that is, the covid pandemic and lockdown? no, not at all. The title of the show and the pictures predates the pandemic. We created the pictures before the pandemic. We only called it new normal because we were so interested that people in england use the term what s the term they always us
they haven t really had to deal with in quite some time, 1245 his that how do you look at social media threats, things people are posting in online threads, and try to verify and give it credibility? he said, certainly, we had concerning info leading up to january 6th. we had concerning info the day before. but the issue is the credibility. they say they were not able to attest to the credibility of that information. and that is where some of this issue is, is that how do you chase down so many of these leads that you re seeing and this chatter that you re seeing on social media? of course, he s also talking about the fact that there s this explosion in domestic terrorism and how are they going to in the days and months and years to come, going to combat that? and also the idea how do you share some of this information? of course, he was defensive of the fbi, said that they did what they were supposed to do when they received some information the day before. they sent it down
conceal data altering the number of nursing home patients who died from covid-19. plus. one. governor cuomo accusers is speaking out about sexual harass am clans what the governor s office is saying. become in washington calm talk of possible repeat of the january seck riots. plus. we got an exclusive look at a report on a plan that could condition and expand the massive security look downs of the capitol. digging in the details and senator blackburn is here. a vote to banning gas stations. cancel culture is so cocolliding with activism. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with the late breaking accusations regarding cuomo s original scandal. new allegations about manipulating the true number of covid deaths of nursing home patients. live from new york. good morning. good evening am you know this is a big deal. because it means that governor cuomo s administration had a complete picture of nursing home deaths as far as last summer. but showed not to release that informat
it requires new voter i.d. requirements for absentee ballots. it even makes it a crime to give food and water to people waiting in line to vote. that part is especially egregious, says the president. the acrtrocity if you hav an occasion that it has nothing to do with decency, they passed a law you can t provide water for people standing in line while they re waiting to vote? you don t need anything else to know this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. you can t provide water for people about to vote. give me a break. president biden says the justice department is now reviewing this new law in georgia. let me take you live to atlanta. natasha chen, the people there are angry. they say this new law is simply not fair. reporter: yeah, ana, they are calling it jim crow 2.0. just now a speaker addressed the very serious issue of the state election board now allow to do take over local election boards. so they re very concerned at what would happe
the telescope that will delve deeper into the universe than ever before will be launched into orbit within hours. and breakfast regulars hughie and freddie find out how the money they ve raised is bringing christmas cheer to children in hospital. and while it remains a dream for another year for and while it remains a dream for another yearfor many of and while it remains a dream for another year for many of us, for one or two it is already a white christmas and there is still more snow in the forecast. join me for all of the details here on your christmas day breakfast. good morning. it s christmas day, 25th december. our main story: the queen s televised christmas day message is expected to be a very personal one the first since her husband, prince philip, died in april at the age of 99. the queen will spend the day at windsor castle after deciding not to travel to sandringham for her traditional family gathering. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. the que