persuasive rather than polarising? kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you. now, you ve been in the theatre business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war? i think you ve framed it beautifully. it is toxic, but most importantly, it s disingenuous. in my humble opinion. it s used to kind of create political fear. and ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. you know, i often hear politicians and i m not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a battering ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. but those issues you ve just outlined race, immigrat
ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war? i think you ve framed it beautifully. it is toxic, but most importantly, it s disingenuous. in my humble opinion. it s used to kind of create political fear. and ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. you know, i often hear politicians and i m not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a battering ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. but those issues you ve just outlined race, immigration they are central to your work, because they re central to your own life story. yeah, totally and utterly. but. and have you been frightened off entering this territory at times? again, i think it s framed brilliantly. fortunately for me, or unfortunat
that s it for us. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. tonight, straight from the source, i have a brand-new reporting on how trump s beefing up his legal team as he is bracing for another potential indictment from the special counsel. i will share that scoop in a moment. and stunning new details on the u.s. soldier believed to be detained in north korea tonight, after crossing the heavily fortified demilitarized zone, a witness says she saw him build across the border, and you are going to hear her account. plus, the music video that is rocking the world of country music, and beyond. why jason aldean s entire chart topper was pulled by country music television. i am kaitlan collins, and this is the source. good evening, we start tonight with that breaking news on how trump is adding more firepower to his legal team, as he is bracing for a potential another indictment from the special counsel. of course, as we, know trump shock to the world when he announced ye
enters talks about pay. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the business journalist, john crowley, and joe twyman, who s the director of the polling organisation, deltapoll. tomorrow s front pages starting with. the financial times leads with covid cases in china, which the paper says have reached up to 250 million in december since the country eased lockdown restrictions. the times reports on an initiative by the government to cut down early retirement the paper says prime minister rishi sunak plans a midlife mot to get over 50s into work. the daily mail says the nhs is wasting money on equality, diversity and inclusion related positions. the i leads on yesterday s vote in scotland on gender identification reforms, saying it could lead to what it calls an unprecedented constitutional clash with westminster. it s also on the front page of the telegraph, which says labour leader sir keir starmer wants updat
celsius in some places. the head of the union representing striking border force staff in the uk says walkouts could go on for six months, unless the government enters talks about pay. police in pakistan say at least two people, including a police officer, have been killed in a suicide blast in the capital islamabad. protestors in afghanistan are arrested after makimng a stand against the taliban s latest prohibition on women and girls attending universities. tuesday s late night announcement has triggered international outrage. now, bbc news presenters look back and remember a century of the corporation s news coverage in 100 years of bbc news. can you just leave me fora moment, please? i will get what i can, but there s a huge change in the running order here. stand by, vt 20. stand by, tx. a, b, cand d, in that order, from five seconds. ten, nine, eight, seven, six. run vt 20. ..five, four, three, two. this is bbc one. ..one, zero. this is bbc news at 100. for a century,