You a free book to answer questions you may have called now, and well come to you 808 to 14000 hello, thanks so much for joining me. Im Jim Sciutto in today for fredricka whitfield, a pivotal moment in the race for the White House this weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris is prepared bearing to make her most important decision, perhaps, since officially becoming the presumptive democratic nominee, harris is now in the final stages of choosing her Running Mate. Sources miller with the process, say she is meeting with the top candidates this Weekend Job interviews, you might call him just moments ago, cnn Crews Saw former attorney general Eric Holder entering the Vice President s residence. Sources tell us key is handling the Vetting Process for the Vp Pick on friday, harris won enough delegates to become her partys nominee. Any for president. And she will now become the first black woman, first Asian American to lead a major party ticket. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is here with me. Priscil
welcome to hardtalk from paris, i m stephen sackur. france is recovering from the massive economic shock of the covid pandemic, but now it s exposed to the political uncertainty that comes with a looming presidential election. emmanuel macron hasn t officially declared that he will be a candidate, but there s little doubt he is running again. my guest today is one of his most important backers, economy and finance minister bruno le maire. now, he has big ambitions to make france the greenest, the most dynamic economy in europe. that is a handy election slogan, but is it credible? minister bruno le maire, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. minister, you came to this economy and finance ministry with big plans for structural reform. has the covid crisis destroyed those ambitions? i would say that it has destroyed no ambition. we will stick to the path of reforms. we have started the mandate of emmanuel macron with key reforms for the french economy, especially the reforms on taxat
he is running again. my guest today is one of his most important backers, economy and finance minister bruno le maire. now, he has big ambitions to make france the greenest, the most dynamic economy in europe. that is a handy election slogan, but is it credible? minister bruno le maire, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. minister, you came to this economy and finance ministry with big plans for structural reform. has the covid crisis destroyed those ambitions? i would say that it has destroyed no ambition. we will stick to the path of reforms. we have started the mandate of emmanuel macron with key reforms for the french economy, especially the reforms on taxation. we have reduced the level of taxation for french smes, for french people, by 50 billion euros. we have introduced reforms for the simplification of the life of the smes. then came this huge crisis, and i think this is the most important crisis since 1929 that we ve lived in europe, in the western world, in china, in i
the port city sco export hubs on the black sea. a major wblow to ukraine. inside the azovstal steel plant, ukrainian forces singing a battle hymn. it s sweeter to die in battle than to live in chains as slaves, they chant. prepared to fight for mariupol and ukraine until the bitter end. that evacuation mission is underway, but he didn t want to say more until he has good news to report. he says despite the involvement of the united nations and the red cross, the russians are constantly changing their agreements and their conditions for evacuations, which means the success of the operation, jake, is hardly a guarantee. scott mcclain reporting for us from ukraine. the kremlin spokesman dismissed reports that the russian army has broken into the steel plant into mariupol. cnn s matthew chance is live in moscow, where we should note the kremlin has imposed strict laws regarding how russia s presence in ukraine is allowed to be described. mat matthew, what exactly is he
we speak to the mayor of freetown in sierra leone, subject of a new bbc documentary. we ll hear from award winning actress and activist nazanin boniadi on what s next for iran s women led protests. and iranian female djs use music to defy the islamic republic. hello, i m azadeh moshiri and welcome to our bbc news special programme on international women s day. i m standing in front of the millicent fawcett statue, here in parliament square. she was a suffragist in the 20th century, protesting to secure the right to vote for women. it s by the artist gillian wearing and it was made after a campaign by a feminist writer, caroline criado perez, who wanted to see a woman s statue here in the square. now, of course, what we re about to look at for the next half hour are just some of the issues affecting women today. there s plenty more coverage from the uk and around the world on the bbc news website and app. so let s begin with ukraine. and after more than two years of war in ukr