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So you ve published your memoir, i always knew, which is structured around 30 years of letters to your late beloved mother. you know, you ve been awarded the legion d honneur france s highest order of merit. what would your mother, vivian may, think if she could see the heights which you ve reached and the decorations you ve received? my mother had such a kind of. ..wondrous attitude toward me. she often madejokes and said, i don t know where you came from, barbara, but i think they exchanged babies in the hospital! they chuckle. i was very lucky, um. ..to have lived a life of great adventure without ever being wounded by my colour. ....
So how do you decide which is which, barbara? that is a very good question. they chuckle. i don t know how i do that. all i know is that for a very long time, i kept the two professions totally apart, and that now at the end of my life, finally there is a kind of conversion, or convergence of literature and sculpture. i have two retrospective sculpture exhibitions on back to back, and i have my memoir, i always knew. yes. so you ve published your memoir, i always knew, which is structured around 30 years of letters to your late beloved mother. you know, you ve been awarded the legion d honneur france s highest order of merit. ....
We begin overseas where the race is on to restore power to 6 million ukrainians after a barrage of strikes on the country s critical infrastructure. vladimir putin is trying to weapon size winter by cutting the power in the midst of extreme cold weather. new satellite shows the extent of the damage with ukraine almost completely in the dark. this image on the left is from january. the right is from this month. they have each likely suffered 1,000 wounded or killed troops from putin s war. my next guest worked tirelessly to help the ukrainian people since that began serving a remarkable 180 million meals through world central kitchen. the award-winning chef jose andres. he was just honored by president zelenskyy with the ukrainian order of merit. chef jose andres joins me now. ....
During this difficult time. i m talking from odesa, where you can see it s a big city, but it s complete blackness, because power has been cut off as a result of the ongoing russian missile strikes against power infrastructure facilities. it s power cuts and shortages all across the country. we saw something similar taking place on the outskirts of kyiv, another three people killed there. russia to you appears to really step up the missile strikes. looking to impose maximum hurt, as we know, by targeting infrastructure. matthew, thank you. in ukraine, the president there awarding the nation s order of merit for jose andres, providing meals for the wartorn country. ....
A facebook post about police brutality. pubs and brewers are calling for the freeze in beer duty to be reinstated ahead of the chancellor s autumn statement this thursday. they say costs are continuing to rise and beer sales are slowing. the british beer and pub association say more needs to be done to support the industry and avoid further pub closures ahead of a difficult winter. without that support, we will lose the pubs, the beating heart of our high street if we do not find a way to support them and we want to keep seeing that and making the pint and affordable visit for all particularly this christmas time. we want desperately the support from the chancellor. to help steer through what could be a difficult winter. the broadcaster baroness floella benjamin has been named as one of six new members of the order of merit. ....