now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. if afghanistan is to find a way out of seemingly never ending war, the next few weeks will be critically important. the biden administration is pressing the afghan government and the taliban to accept a transition plan based on a ceasefire and power sharing. it s a tough sell, given the taliban has intensified its military campaign in recent months. but what is the alternative? my guest is afghanistan s combative first vice president, amrullah saleh. is the afghan peace process running out of road? first, vice president amrullah saleh in kabul, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to be with you. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, mr vice president. i would like you first to tell me how you feel about the biden administration sending your government a very clear and blunt message. show leadership, they said take tough decisions for peace. are you ready to do that? to begin wit
to the uk using a special visa. and, parisians occupy one of the cities largest theatres, as they call on the government to do more to support artists during the covid crisis. hello and welcome to the programme. myanmar s ambassador in london says he has been locked out of his embassy. kyaw zwar minn said staff were asked to leave the building by myanmar s military attache and he was told he was no longer the country s representative. myanmar s military seized power in a coup on february the first, sparking weeks of protests and escalating violence. mark lobel reports. locked out of the embassy he headed, kyaw zwar minn claims there has been a mini coup on the streets of london. they occupied my building. you know, i m the ambassador of myanmar. and have you asked the foreign secretary, dominic raab, about this situation? yeah, we are waiting for their inspection. ambassador here since 2014, kyaw zwar minn won praise from britain s foreign secretary by calling for the release
to watch. you get the electronic grid on screen, right? that shows you the channels that you have to choose from, and that s on the left side. and then there s the consulates where the various shows and the access that s across the top. you look at the titles for the shows. and this is what it looks like. you click on what you want to report, and what you want to wash, and that s how you get there. in my house, the remote never works, they have to like open up three cabinet doors, and bench press one of the dogs with the left arm, while you aim the remote in your right arm, and a bank shot of a piece of tinfoil, and get that thing to actually notice that you re getting on it while you swear. that s how it works in my house. but, the thing that you are pointing at and swearing at when you re trying to click something on tv, kind of looks like that electronic grid. that s what you also used to now, in terms of watching television. it turns out that is not just an american thing
record, and what you want to watch, and that s how you get there. in my house, the remote never works, you have to like open up three cabinet doors, and bench press one of the dogs with the left arm, while you aim the remote in your right arm, and a bank shot off a piece of tinfoil, and get that thing to actually notice that you re clicking on it while you swear. that s how it works in my house. but, the thing that you are pointing at and swearing at when you re trying to click something on tv, kind of looks like that electronic grid. that s what you also used to now, in terms of watching television. it turns out that is not just an american thing, it s like that in lots of places all over the world, anywhere where there is so-called, smart tvs. but check this out. this was today in russia. this happened on at least three different major tv production providers in russia today. the grid looks at first like a normal run down of channels and shows, but if you go, for example to
sweet old chicago laura: they started their stuff and after he left office the democrats kept returning to their obama nostalgia to hit trump. what does it mean to be cool? composed. you have the q? under control. never going out of style. the obamas have been the first family of cool since 2009. the first father of coal which is 47 years old when he took office and he showed off how a man from chicago by way of hawaii. laura: and now with the decrepit biden in the white house, the sell gets harder and harder. democrats of the party of the rising american majority, people of color, younger people. single women. democrats of the party of getting things done. could you point to one thing the biden administration or you, democrats in control have done to deal with inflation? i can talk about what i have done and what i m willing to do. laura: oh, can you? the polls show none of this is working. biden is taking a wrecking ball to the economy, the mili