many similar movements that arae on the way. inevitably, and the few visionaries who have grasped this obvious truth weirdly , have not been welcomed by blue am america. they have been mockeda, they and derided as prophets, always are. a fewfe years ago, foro, example, a blue blond woman from montana called rachel dolezal declared that she wanas black because she decided that she was black . blackness was rachel dolezald lived experience, but she was not greeted as liberators. t gr she was almost immediateh booed off the stage and then she disappearee d and tellingly, none of the people yelling atye rachel dolezal ever explained whdy she couldn t be black. why not?t? in this country, you can change your , but not your race. really, how does that work? what species of science are weec talking about here? it was note are we defensible al and so over time, like alle ar indefensible arguments, it will collapse someday. the new york times will give g rachel dough s all its
if this had been a boxinguld hae match, the referee would have c called this in the first 60 seconds. and now, in case you needur run reminding, it wasn t your run of the mill debate, because due to his stroke, fed chairmanons. required special dispensations. you may noticay notice thesed large monitors that are behind us .ca this is part of our closedptio ningcaptioning system.e questi it was requested by john fetterman to help him processar the questions we are asking him tonight. but right off the bat, it is pretty clear that fetterman would need a lot more than that wha big screen. what qualifies you to be a senar us senator? you have 60 seconds. hi. good night, everybody. good ngood night. ll well, scary thought that might have been actually the best moment of the entire debate.deb. one of for fetterman, one of the mostt remarkable exchanges was about d chairman s views on fracking. that i absolutely supporte need fracking. belilieve that we need independence
as they come in on this, the most crucial of election nights. and i m lucy grey with the other main stories this hour. the iranian president threatens decisive action to stop the wave of anti government protests sweeping the country. super typhoon noru has hit the philippines and is set to sweep through the capital manila with winds of up to 175 kilometres an hour. hello and welcome to rome where in the last few minutes polls have closed in an election which many predict could be a political turning point for the country. polling suggests italy will choose its first female prime minister, giorgia meloni, and the first in the modern era to come from the far right. her brothers of italy party look set to top the vote, but are likely to be forced into coalition with other parties to form a government. in the next hour, we ll be trying to make sense of the rapidly shifting sands of italian politics with our correspondents and a range of experts. what s brought the nation to thi
pressed on the g greform debate. theeresident saying he can t do it alone,hoping, quote, rational republicans will helpp what we re now learnrnrn about bipapaisan talksnder way over the holiday weekend. he dangerous tornado threat. reports just coming in o tornadoes on the grorod in minnesota. watches in effect across several states. possible strong, long track twisters, dadaging winds and large hail.. and tracking the firststst hurre of t t seasoso in the easasrn pacific. ginger zee stataing by. badeather and air traffic control issues canceling more than1,000 flights over the memorial day weekend. ononof the busieie travel weekends in more than two years. overseas tonight, r rsian and ukrainian forces battling block by block for control of a key city innhe easternrn donbas region. thousands of civilians f fced to nene about a french journrnist killed. and presidentid ben n owukrarae for long r rge rocket systems capable of hitting targets in russia. > the world s most
comment from the chief constables as to why they are not responding to requests from the media. it is also the comment they have used to ask families why they won t respond. words fail me, really. it is the most awful thing to have to go through and the layers of trauma poor communication have added, i don t know if we will ever get over it but we have to try and find a way. it but we have to try and find a wa . ., ., , ., . , , way. nottinghamshire police is being investi . ated way. nottinghamshire police is being investigated by way. nottinghamshire police is being investigated by the way. nottinghamshire police is being investigated by the iopc, way. nottinghamshire police is being investigated by the iopc, the - investigated by the iopc, the independent office of police conduct, over its handling of the attacks was that there is a review by the college of policing and in a statement the force said in light of those investigations it would be inappropriate to commen