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washington tonight. as always, thanks for being with us. apology to a killer. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, once in a while, biden lets his old self-slip out and he says something that he would say when he and his party used to actually be a little bit sensible lincoln riley an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal, that s right. but how many thousands of people being killed by illegals? laura: the upset in his party and the press was immediate. and it wasn t about the poor young woman murdered by a man biden s people let into the country but it was about the nomenclature that biden used. he probably should have used different word and i think he would know that. i don t believe that s the language that i believe he believes in his heart about immigrant people who find their way to this country to find a better live for themselves. using illegal. that shows generational difference between most joe biden, his age and a lot of other p ....
persuasive rather than polarising? kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you. now, you ve been in the theatre business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war? i think you ve framed it beautifully. it is toxic, but most importantly, it s disingenuous. in my humble opinion. it s used to kind of create political fear. and ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. you know, i often hear politicians and i m not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a battering ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. but those issues you ve just outlined race, im ....
ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war? i think you ve framed it beautifully. it is toxic, but most importantly, it s disingenuous. in my humble opinion. it s used to kind of create political fear. and ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. you know, i often hear politicians and i m not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a battering ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. but those issues you ve just outlined race, immigration they are central to your work, because they re central to your own life story. yeah, totally and utterly. but. and have you been frightened off entering this territory at times? again, i think it s framed brilliantly. fortunately for me, or unfo ....
so coming up very shortly, we will have that briefing from the pentagon, live here on bbc news. we will be hearing from a number of officials, including mark milley, the general. and secretary lloyd austin, as well. there is at the officials we will be hearing from but i think now we can stay with us pictures, we can go back to that as and when the briefing starts, that we can now talk about the extreme heat around europe. we have been talking about the extreme heat and temperatures across the world, and the heatwave that is continuing across southern europe. several cities in italy are on the red list, places like rome and sardinia have passed a0 celsius. we can now cross live to martinjones, who is in lazio, he is a british citizen who has lived in italy for the past five years. how hot is it where you are? the past five years. how hot is it where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so where you ar ....
just before 7:30 last night. several people who came their aid were also injured, including three police officers. the suspect remains at large. our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan is at the scene. take us through what we know of the incident itself? incident itself? police and witnesses incident itself? police and witnesses have incident itself? police and witnesses have described | incident itself? police and - witnesses have described what happened here is horrific. the details are incredibly distressing. as you say, it happened on a straight very closely clapham common. it isjust a straight very closely clapham common. it is just a stone s throw away from the common. it is this three lined street. greg my tree lined street. but investigations have been focused on a car. we saw people in protected clothing go back and forth. it was around 7:30pm last night that witnesses say they saw a woman driving that car with her two young children inside. they saw a man doused ....