and the nhs. now on bbc news, de graft mensah travels to ghana, the country of his family s heritage to find out about the legacy of the british empire on the country and its people. i m de graft mensah podcaster, presenter and proud british ghanaian. i m going to be leaving to west africa for the first time since i was nine. the murder of george floyd and the anti racism protests that followed led people to start to question britain s history, as well as its actions abroad when it had an empire. and it led me to want to find out more. i know that ghana used to be part of the british empire, so i want to discover what that meant for the country. i want to learn why britain made ghana part of its empire, how it affected the ghanaian people, and what impact it had on my own family. i ve made the 3,000 milejourney to accra, the capital of ghana, somewhere i ve not been since i was a kid. you know what? it feels so. it feels comforting because i m seeing people that look like m
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has told the de facto ruler of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman, that he holds him personally responsible for the murder of thejournalist, jamal khashoggi. his comments came during a vist tojedda , the latest stop on his tour of the region. the american leaderfist bumped with mohammed bin salman ahead of the talks. it comes years after he promised to make saudi arabia a pariah over the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul. (biv)at a news conference injeddah, the president told we discussed human rights and the need for political reform. as always, as i always do, i made clear the topic was vitally important to me and to the united states. i visit at the united states. i visit at the top of the meeting. i was straightforward and direct in discussing it. i made my view clear crystal clear. i said very straightforwardly for an american president to be silent in an issue of human rights is inco
that day there were due to be two men semifinals at wimbledon. but one was cancelled because of an injury. bbc television told as the six o clock news was able to air at its normal time once it was confirmed that the wimbledon men s semifinal was cancelled. there may be occasions with the schedules have to be more flexible. the studio now being used for the news at six and news at ten features a giant video wall showing presenters from all the nations and regions who are about deliver their own bulletins. what s not mentioned is that the number of those presenters and the services they provide are declining because of budget cuts. the latest round announced in may and defected from the autumn included the end of the oxford edition of south today and the cambridge version of look east. first tonight, cambridge university is to increase mental health funding after the death of five students. a heat health alert has been introduced in the south and we re being reminded about the
he felt about the killing. we discussed human rights and the need for political reform. as alwasy i always do, i made clear the topic is vitally important to me and to the united states. with respect of the murder ofjamal khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it at the time and what i think of it now. and i was exactly. i was straightforward and direct in discussing it. i made my view crystal clear. i said very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on human rights is not consistent with who we are and who i am. i will always stand up for our values. let s get some more from our middle east correspondent, anna foster in jeddah. there are many people who will see that striking image of the fist bump betweenjoe biden and the man he called essentially a pariah just a few years ago, and they will believe the very fact that this meeting happened, and the very fact that those images are being beamed around the world
to receive a formal apology. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has told the de facto ruler of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman, that he holds him personally responsible for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. his comments came during a visit tojeddah, the latest stop on his tour of the region. the american leader fist bumped with mohammed bin salman ahead of the talks. it comes years after he promised to make saudi arabia a pariah over the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul. at a news conference injeddah, the president told reporters he made it very clear how he felt about the killing. we discussed human rights and the need for political reform. as always i always do, i made clear the topic is vitally important to me and to the united states. with respect of the murder of khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it at the time and what i think of it now. and was exactly