Civil war. Barring any lastminute changes, the panel will consist of seven democrats and one renegade republican. House minority leader kevin mccarthy was given the opportunity to appoint five republicans but took his ball and went home after speaker pelosi rejected two trump loyalists that he put forward. Congressman jim jordan of ohio and gym banks of indiana both made no secret of their plans to undermine the probe. History will decide whether pelosi was right to sacrifice the appearance of bipartisanship in favor of a sober and serious investigation. But the gravity of the moment is clear, based on evidence we ve already seen with our own eyes. We all saw the trump perpetrate the big lie that he won the election for months without evidence. We watched as he and his enablers gathered trump s most fervent supporters in d. C. And whipped them into a frenzy with hours of incendiary speeches. And we witnessed that mob storm the capitol, outfitted for battle, not peaceful protest. The ai
from the actor will smith. my guest today has spent more than 25 years finding laughs in sometimes unlikely places, omid djalili was born in london to iranian parents. he has thrived as a cross culture comedic chameleon, but is it possible to be funny without being mean? omid djalili, welcome to hardtalk. stephen sackur, my friend, my fellow presenter in the business of show, man who is so unbelievably good looking and thin that he walks into snooker hall, they start chalking his head. i am so happy to be here, this is one of my favourite shows. well, if you carry on like that, this might be an interview, it will be a monologue! let me ask you this, you have been doing comedy for almost 30 years, do you find the same stuff funny today as you did back then? what a tricky question! what a way to start. that is such a tricky question. look, at the end of the day, it is a big subject now because we saw the oscars and we saw will smith smack chris rock. can i just tell you, just
doctors in sri lanka have said the island s hospitals are nearly out of life saving medicines as an economic crisis continues. the sri lanka medical association said hospitals no longer had access to imported medical equipment and vital drugs. some have suspended routine surgeries. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. what i find funny, you might find offensive. comedy challenges taste and convention and it can rouse strong reaction, as we saw at this year s oscars when a joke earned comedian chris rock a slap in the face from the actor will smith. my guest today has spent more than 25 years finding laughs in sometimes unlikely places, omid djalili was born in london to iranian parents. he has thrived as a cross culture comedic chameleon, but is it possible to be funny without being mean? omid djalili, welcome to hardtalk. stephen sackur, my friend, my fellow presenter in the business of show, man who is so unbe
in london to iranian parents. he has thrived as a cross culture comedic chameleon, but is it possible to be funny without being mean? omid djalili, welcome to hardtalk. stephen sackur, my friend, my fellow presenter in the business of show, man who is so unbelievably good looking and then that he walks into snooker hall, they start chalking his head. i am so happy to be here, this is one of my favourite shows. well, if you carry on like that, this might be an interview, it will be a monologue! let me ask you this, you have been doing comedy for almost 30 years, do you find the same stuff funny today as you did back then? what a tricky question! what a way to start. that is such a tricky question. look, at the end of the day, it is a big subject now because we saw the oscars and we saw will smith smack chris rock. can i just tell you, just to speak personally, i saw the video the day after, and i bleary eyed woke up on monday morning, and i just thought that will smith had sma
and i learned from him i think that good reporting, decentjournalism, is rooted in human decency. there was a word that he and i used to use when we were living in south africa and it is from the nguni languages of southern africa and the word is ubuntu . there is no translation into english but it contained the idea that all human beings are bound together in a shared responsibility for each other. bishop tutu used to say ubuntu can be defined like this. i can only be fully me when you are fully you. we two are connected. i can t be rich if you are poor and i can t be free if you are enslaved. george mentioned ubuntu at a gathering to celebrate his 60th birthday seven years ago when we thought his cancer had been eradicated and he talked about ubuntu, the sense of humanity, and i think it was his lodestar. i hoped watching him as a younger journalist that some of the values he lived would rub off on me. so he was a very inspiring and generous and selfless man. i don t want