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time now on bbc news for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. turn on the tv or go online, and it s not hard to find political content of all kinds, often delivered with all the nuance of a ten tonne truck. rare is the tv show which offers commentary on the human condition, which is both entertaining and wildly popular. but it can be done, and my guest today knows it from personal experience. george takei was a fixture on the original star trek series as lieutenant sulu. the show s progressive values dovetailed with his personal activism, which continues to this day. do the values of star trek still resonate? george takei, welcome to hardtalk. good to be here. you re known to many around the world as an actor. do you see yourself more these days as an activist? both, as a matter of fact. i am an actor and an activist, as well. which is more important to you? acting is my passion, the theatre is my passion. but i was defined by my childhood imprisonment, an ....
criminal charges are now on the table after that deadly shooting by alec baldwin. hello, everyone. it s wednesday, october 27th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in new york. thanks so much forget being an early start with me. i m laura jarrett. christina is off today. welcome to our viewers ain the u.s. and all around the world. we begin with the next step to bringing the pandemic to an end. they have recommended the covid vaccine for kids 5 to 11. the they say the benefits outweigh the risks. this as 118,000 more kids tested positive for covid in the last week alone. kids account for a disproportionate share of new cases in the u.s. and higher numbers than other conditions like chickenpox where vaccines are already available for kids. this is a very important option, especially with so much covid around, so many kids trying to go back to school and prevent spread within their families and within their communities. if you look around and see the cases that have happened, the ho ....
dana: voicing their disace proveal from the botched afghanistan withdrawal. border crisis and failure to find a solution on the debt ceiling and more. jackie heinrich is live at the white house with more on this. i know the white house publicly likes to say they don t sweat the polls but what do you hear? the president s job approval rating is way underwater. there was a poll yesterday just 38% approving of the job he is doing. 53% disapproving overall of the job the president has done on all but one key issue. there were negative marks in the double digits. coronavirus, economy, his job as commander-in-chief, on taxes and foreign policy and immigration, all disapproval ratings higher than 50%. and with those approving ranging from just 34 to 48%. on immigration in the southern border there were even worse marks. 67% of people disapprove the president s handling on those issues. the poll put it this way. battered on trust, challenged on overall competency president ....
for democracy, that is why i came forward, and let s be clear it doesn t have to be this way. we are here today because of deliberate choices facebook has made. haugen also accuses instagram, owned by facebook, of failing to crack down on accounts that are damaging to teens mental health. and a new cnn analysis found proof of the app promoting extreme dieting, and eating disorders to young girls. we re going to have much more on that in a moment. let s get to cnn correspondent donie o sullivan. you ve been covering this a long time. let s begin with something that happened in the background yesterday, that facebook, instagram, whatsapp, they all went down, they re back up this morning, they all went down after really unusual widespread outages. the timing uncanny to say the least, do we have any reason to believe this was deliberate? do we know who is responsible? reporter: so, jim, at the moment, we don t know. facebook put out a statement late last night essential ....
platforms, including instagram and whatsapp as the company comes under fire over whistleblower allegations that it allows hate and misinformation to proliferate. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the white house. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is standing by. president biden said he can t guarantee that the debt ceiling will be raised in the next two weeks. so what s at stake right now? wolf, the president also described it as this self-inflicted wound that would send the u.s. economy off a cliff if this happens. two weeks from today when the u.s. is set to run out of money essentially to pay its bills. that would affect things like social security checks, payments for u.s. military members, those child tax credits, all of these financial obligations that the u.s. has. that would all be at stake if democrats and republicans do not ....