short story, a symphony, not a solo. how narrow our site and how monochrome our understanding when we do not embrace the richness of different perspectives. we can t see round ourselves by ourselves, but need other human beings if we are able to be what we were created to be, notjust humans being, but humans becoming. the text we heard from the gospel of matthew is from the beatitudes, or sayings of extreme blessing. the subtleties and nuancesin extreme blessing. the subtleties and nuances in the original language is hidden, and makes it very difficult for us to understand. but another way to see this today isjesus setting out his stall, announcing his manifesto. placid are can mean, this is what my vision looks like. this is what i will stand for, work for, for my life for. this is what my kingdom coming looks like in real time. blessed are. another translation is, you are on the right track if. the poor in spirit, they are not weak or poor, the meat are not doormats, no.
i m christiane amanpour in london. welcome to the a history anpour hour. in the next 60 minutes we will take you around the world to ask the tough questions and tackle the big problems and let history be our guide. here is where we re headed this week. who is banking on the united states failing to deliver. ukraine watches the clock run out as military aid stalls in congress. former national security official and russia expert, fiona hill calls it the winning point for putin. this is the ticking point where the united states and ukraine and europe and everybody loses. former cop president who cried tears of regret when he tried to ween the cold off coal and reacts to the new climate deal off of dubai. i certainly think this does spell the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. also ahead, an afghan family fights for their teenaged daughter s life, after taliban rule drove her, like so many other girls to total despair. and finally, from the archive, as vo
tonight on the reidout we just learned about another shooting in tennessee. a school shooting. and i am truly without words. and our children deserve better. first lady and teacher dr. jill biden responding to the latest horrific acts of mass violence as politicians in states like tennessee worry more about drag shows and banning books than about actually protecting our children. also tonight, public protests in israel and elsewhere against the rising wave of authoritarianism. while here in the u.s., there s a shocking lack of urgency in repudiating the conspiratorial and violent rhetoric from our home-grown autocrat in waiting, donald trump. meanwhile, trump continues to lash out at the manhattan d.a. and the manhattan grand jury hears from a key player in trump s hush money scheme. bebut we begin with a tragedy that is unique to america. another school massacre. this time in nashville, tennessee. where a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three students and t
call or go online today. tonight on the reidout. when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real life consequences. it s not some abstract political science question. we are all affected. and we take this for granted and we can t. and he s not kidding around. after 240 years after peacefully transferring power, every presidency since george washington ended his term after the second one, we re reminded our democracy really is a fragile construct. and taking a look at some. overlooked races this cycle, a reminder that anyone can win if enough people vote for them. and later rob reiner and michael moore join us to give us their takes on this tumultuous mid term and who they think won the week. we begin four days from an election with massive consequences for our democracy. the stakes in this election could not be higher for so many reasons. in her first public remarks, speaker of the house nancy pelosi thanked supporters for their good wishes for paul pe
kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very lengthy, especially vivid nightmare that ijust dreamt one night when i was asleep and have woken up the next day, and i still have those memories of that nightmare lingering with me. but because i m in the same familiarspaces, back at my home that i was in before i went to iran, sometimes i have to pinch myself and remind myself that i ve actually gone through that terrible ordeal and that experience in real life. you did say a little while ago, you said when you first released, you think that you re going to be shattered, you re going to be broken but actually, that s not really true. from my experience, at least, you say the