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in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanon s minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, we re delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your government are levelling with the lebanese people, and indeed with the international community as well, about the scale of the economic catastrophe that your country is currently living through? absolutely. stephen, let me tell you, it has been quite a challenging year since our government took office and we started really working on a very tough mission to recover the economy in lebanon and to fix all the mess that the past two decades have left lebanon in. our government came with a big ti ....
a very warm welcome to the programme, we begin in sri lanka where the president got a buy read your has not honoured his promise to resign, he flew to the mall deves 2a hours earlier but in the public letter he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state while he was absent. and she drank a curfew is in force with suzuki forces clashing with protesters. prompting the un security secretary general in the last few minutes to tweet saying it s important the root causes of the conflict and the grievances of protesters are addressed, i urge all party leaders to embrace the spirit of compromise for a peaceful and democratic transition. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, crowds gathered in front of his office, one of the few government buildings not yet occupied by protesters. protesters are lined up along this avenue. on the other side yo ....
makes it all the more concerning when you look at how many of trump s pardons carried the stink of political patronage and best in corrupt self-interest at worst. according to pew research center over the course of his four years in office trump only granted 237 acts of clemency. that s the third lowest number of pardons for any president in history. only the two president bush is pardoned fewer people. it would seem that trump was extremely selective about who he pardoned. still some of his pardons were widely praised. like alice johnson in 2020 who was serving life in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction. he posthumously pardoned the historical figure season being anthony, arrested for voting illegally. in 1870 to inject johnson the first black heavyweight boxing champ who is subject to a racist conviction in 1913 for transporting a white woman across state lines. but he also pardoned a robes gallery of political figures including many of his own associates. some o ....
knees. diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. diana seems to have defied her critics, people who wanted her to shut up and go away. we will all feel cheated always, but you were taken from ul us so young. diana was a pioneer. she was ahead of her time. she haunted the royal family, and she still haunts the royal family to this day. diana s never far away. i had dreams as a young girl if i want this, that and the other. not want. hoped. this is cnn breaking news. i m jean meserve in washington. in paris, france a tragedy. britain s princess diana has been in an automobile accident. she has been injured. her companion dodi al fayed with whom she has been romantically linked over the last month or so, reportedly was killed. i saw there was a message on the phone answering machine, and it was from a fleet street editor saying had i seen the news about princess diana. and did i want to say anything. we have reports from pa ....
scotland where queen elizabeth ii now lies at rest at the royal family s official scottish residence. as the queen s coffin arrived following what was a six-hour journey from her balmoral estate, crowds of mourners and admirers packed the streets to pay their respects. this is or was the first leg of an eight-day journey to her final resting place in england. the public in london will also be able to pay its respects to the queen starting on wednesday afternoon at the palace of westminster where she will be lying in state until her funeral next monday. well, ahead of that, an emotional and poignant moment on sunday. princess anne, the queen s daughter curtseyed to her mother as her casket entered the palace of holyroodhouse. she had followed the hearse from balmoral to edinburgh on that 118-mile, six-hour journey. and you can see the grief reflected on the face of her daughter. the loss of the queen, of course, being felt by many across the uk. this is probably someth ....