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learn from his extraordinary life? presidentjose ramos horta, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you in the studio. i think it s fair to say you ve given most of your life to the struggle for freedom in timor leste, east timor, as we used to know it, and you have served as its president, notjust once, but twice. you decided to come back in 2022 to seek the presidency again. was that a tough decision, to come back? yes. on a personal basis, yes. it was not in my plan, but then mr xanana gusmao, now prime minister, whom i deeply respect, he asked me to run again. ..to put timor leste back on the map of the world, because it was neglected, forgotten for a few years, because we ve been living in peace and tranquillity, so we did not constitute news. but at the same time, with so many conflicts in the world, we were running the risk of being forgotten. so. and then our asean accession. so i was asked to serve, to be the visible face ....
and good morning. it is going to be another very wet day across the west of scotland. elsewhere, dry, cloudy, breezy. i ll bring you all the details very shortly. and we have a winner the strictly glitterball trophy is in new hands after a fabulous finale. it s sunday, the 17th of december. our main story: after years of denials, the former conservative peer baroness mone has admitted that she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit made from ppe that was sold to the government during the pandemic. the company was led by her husband, doug barrowman. she says she did help broker the deal, but claims she has been made a scapegoat for the government s failings. our political correspondent laura kuenssberg has more. questions about the pandemic, profit and politics have followed baroness mone and her husband to southern europe. foryears, mone and her husband to southern europe. for years, they denied links to a firm that receives £200 million in taxpayer mo ....
home in connecticut. the statement from kissinger associates did not give a cause of death. here s a look back at his life from our diplomatic correspondent james landale. to some, henry kissinger was one of the cold war s most influential statesman who advised presidents and prime ministers for decades. to others he was a war criminal whose ruthless defence of american interests cost thousands of lives. he was born heinz kissinger in nazi germany. hisjewish family fled to america in 1938 but the young henry, as he became, returned to europe fighting with the us army helping to liberate concentration camps. in peacetime the soldier became a scholar at harvard university making his name arguing that nuclear weapons could be used in conventional wars. i believe it is technically possible to conduct a resistance with a limited employment of nuclear weapons although that is less desirable. it was president richard nixon who brought him into government, first as national security ....
still being held by greek in gaza. israeli officials said that at least 13 more israelis being held captive in the territory are due to be released shortly. they will be released shortly. they will be released in exchange for 39 palestinian prisoners. the temporary truce continues to hold for a second day. each it said this afternoon there are signals that the truce could be extended for another one or two days. a delegation from qatar, which has been crucial in mediating between israel and hamas, has visited israel as well to discuss a possible extension to this deal. these are live pictures, looking across at gaza, from southern israel. you can see those pinpoints of light in the dark. this is an area that we look at a lot at the moment, because the ceasefire, the brief cessation in fighting, the first we have seen since this war began, is a crucial part of this deal. it is worth taking a moment as well to reflect on the numbers of hostages who are being released each ....