Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gets tonights last word in the 11th Hour with Stnie Rle starts now. Tonight, tragedy in georgia. A deadly high School Shooting Forces Gun Violence back into the spotlight at the height of the election plus former republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney gives her vote to Vice President harris but how much does this actually help the democratic ticket . Then the Vice President unveils her vision for the american economy. We get into the Business Agenda shes pitching to voters as the 11th Hour gets underway on this wednesday night. Good evening once again, im stephanie good evening once again, im Stephanie Ruhle and we are now just 62 days away from the election, and Gun Violence unfortunately is again the top issue on the Campaign Trail. Why . Because we experienced another School Shooting in america today. A suspect opened fire at a High School in georgia, killing two students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Engel wrote and two teachers, Richard Aspinwall and ch
So much to shape the world of today . Sathnam sanghera, welcome to hardtalk. Its nice to be back. Its great to have you back, and you are back with a new book, which i have here empireworld. Its your take on just how massive the impact of the British Empire was and still is on the world. You certainly dont undersell your idea, its subtitled how British Imperialism has shaped the globe. I really do believe that. I think the British Empire explains so much about peoples daily lives Around The World, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the Bbc World Service used to be known as the bbc empire service. It explains so much about our daily news. Youvejust come back from guyana theres a Border Dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, theres a gap between the way in Which Britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did be
I really do believe that. I think the British Empire explains so much about peoples daily lives Around The World, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the Bbc World Service used to be known as the bbc empire service. It explains so much about our daily news. Youve just come back from guyana theres a Border Dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, theres a gap between the way in which britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did before we go around pontificating on things like democracy and the environment and human rights. We need to remember our distinctly patchy records on those things during the age of empire. But do you think your perspective is driven in part by your own background 7 youre of indian heritage, born and raised in the united kingdom, so britain and india matter particularly to you, you know t
is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands that is part of our survival mechanism allow us to see the future, to generalise and we are conscious of ourselves as individuals and that means we are conscious of our own death and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that all of their efforts will come to nothing safe we look back to human history, we see humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we find of human development is su
tonight with his opposition to gop calls for stronger work requirements to be included in any budget agreement that would be . with the debt ceiling increase. the issue of a work requirement has a barge for the biggest remaining hurdles for reaching an agreement between negotiators for the white house and house republicans. as a top gop negotiator is weighing in on this tonight, that s louisiana covers man garrett graves. he said tonight his party will not drop their demand for tougher work requirements as part of a final agreement. democrats have conversely argued listen, social benefit programs already work requirements in place. adding to them this is unnecessary. meanwhile, as you pointed out the president and his top advisers are over at camp david this weekend. working perhaps. assess june 5 deadline quickly approaches. jason, we will all be watching and i know you know a lot more about this and i do. we ve got a popcorn here in washington waiting. back to you. kevin