Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The athletic excellence we saw at the Tokyo Olympics will live long in the memory, but so will the moment the brilliant us gymnast Simone Biles chose not to compete, to safeguard her mental and physical health. Us gymnastics, still reeling from the repercussions of a sex abuse scandal, illustrates what can go wrong when Gold Medals and glory are put above care of individual athletes. My guest is former us olympic Champion Gymnast aly raisman. Is there a wider lesson for elite sport in the shame of american gymnastics . Aly raisman in massachusetts, welcome to hardtalk. Hi, how are you . I am very well. Its a pleasure to have you on this show. Let me begin by asking you what it was like for you as One Of Us gymnastics most decorated olympians, the captain of the gymnastic team in rio 2016, what was it like for you watching your team compete from afar in tokyo just a couple of weeks back . I think there was a lot of different emotions. I just want
Hello and welcome. A humanitarian disaster is fast unfolding in afghanistan. The un says more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in fighting between the Taliban And Government forces. Injuly, the areas controlled by the taliban were these, shown in red. With contested regions in yellow. But now a lot more territory has fallen to the taliban, including nine of the Countrys 3a provincial capitals, as it intensifies its offensive to seize power, following the withdrawal of western troops. 20 years after 9 11 and what has become americas longest war, President Biden has set a symbolic date of 11 September 2021 for full withdrawal of american troops. Peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban have been taking place for a year in doha but no agreement has been reached. The bbc s Yalda Hakim interviewed two high Profile Figures in the taliban chain of command, she asked them both what do they want from the afghan government and how they would rule the country if they could r
We start in the us where Wall Street shares have closed at new Record Highs on hopes that soaring inflation has finally peaked. Americas Consumer Price Index rose 0. 5 injuly almost half the rate it rose injune. Thats the biggest drop in monthly inflation in 15 months. Whys that so important . Well, it means the Federal Reserve may not be under such pressure to start removing stimulus measures. In other words, cheap money could be around for a good while longer. Rapid increase in prices, i do think has peaked, and now with the Delta Variant slowing the economy to some degree, i think that acts almost as like a Rate Hike in some ways. But when you go out here in the west coast, it is busy, it is packed last weekend. So the economy is stilljust bursting at the seams, so very, very positive on economic growth. But i do think things like used vehicle prices and Energy Prices that have really driven inflation have probably peaked especially Energy Prices. So we never thought inflation was g
learned that several u.s. citizens among those dead in israel, that is according to a national security council spokesperson. they say they are continuing to monitor the situation closely, and the state department is ready to provide assistance to any u.s. citizens still in the country. right now, at least 700 israelis are dead, 2300 injured according to israeli officials. the palestinian health ministry says their death fulsome that more than 400 without least 2300 injured. israel has come from that forces have taken both military and non military israeli captives. israeli media says that number is actually at least 100, and includes, women, children and the elderly. earlier today family members of some of those taken by hamas held a press conference where they shared their stories, and pleaded for help. here s one woman 23 old it was a back to saturday night. she called us and said mom, they shot at us, we cannot drive, everybody here is there were four kids and everybo
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