daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. now, you have lived a long and a very full life. and i guess the truth is, you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers. i felt top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe. top secret safe at rand. and i copied them at the same time. and as a friend of mine who went to prison, and was a model for me, really, randy keeler. told me at the time he was one of the very few people i told i was going
president lula is expected to attend the wake on tuesday before the funeral procession. pele died on thursday aged 82. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur and today i m in beautiful northern california to meet the man once described by henry kissinger as the most dangerous in america. in 1971, that man, my guest daniel ellsberg, leaked the so called pentagon papers. he exposed decades of us government lies about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. now, you have lived a long and a very full life. and i guess the truth is, you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that peop
and all eyes on the georgia primaries, it s a big night for the gop and for donald trump. what will it tell about his power to shape the republican party? tonight with the context former eu foreign policy adviser nathalie tocci, and bryan lanza, a former trump communications director. hello, welcome to the programme. we don t yet have sue grey s full report into the parties held in downing street during lockdown, but we do have new and damning evidence of what went on. for the first time, insiders who attended these gatherings have told the bbc that parties were routine. they say staff sat on each other s laps at a leaving do in november 2020, the same party at which the prime minister is seen raising a glass, and that security guards were laughed at when they tried to stop one party from taking place. laura keunssberg has spoken to three people who worked in whitehall, for the bbc s panorama programme, one of whom had attended one of these parties. their voices are spoke
Promising a Mainstream Government for mainstream britain. In the way State Pension is calculated. There would be more funding for schools in england but free lunches would no longer be available for all students. And conservatives would keep the same target on immigration, aiming for a net figure of less than 100,000 a year. More detail and reaction when we start with laura kuenssberg. 0utside. Inside. Theresa may says she wants to end political tribes. Tell them. Getting rid of your nurses. I have been a nurse for 27 years and we are on our knees. The tory manifesto is meant to be a blueprint for what she now calls the mainstream. Yet with protesters at the gates, the tories were whisked in behind tight lines to make their case. With brexit the backdrop, theresa mays ambitions are plainly far wider than that. I believe that our United Kingdom can emerge from this period of national change stronger, fairer and more prosperous than ever before. And i believe we can and must take this op
Promising a Mainstream Government for mainstream britain. In the way State Pension is calculated. There would be more funding for schools in england but free lunches would no longer be available for all students. And conservatives would keep the same target on immigration, aiming for a net figure of less than 100,000 a year. More detail and reaction when we start with laura kuenssberg. 0utside. Inside. Theresa may says she wants to end political tribes. Tell them. Getting rid of your nurses. I have been a nurse for 27 years and we are on our knees. The tory manifesto is meant to be a blueprint for what she now calls the mainstream. Yet with protesters at the gates, the tories were whisked in behind tight lines to make their case. With brexit the backdrop, theresa mays ambitions are plainly far wider than that. I believe that our United Kingdom can emerge from this period of national change stronger, fairer and more prosperous than ever before. And i believe we can and must take this op