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in the us state of utah. giving evidence, the oscar winning actress said she d been hit from behind by terry sanderson, who claims he was the victim. from the suburbs of paris to the cambridge university boat race crew it s been quite the journey for 21 year old noam mouelle on sunday, he ll become one of a very small number of non white oarsmen to take part in the historic annual contest on the river thames. he s been speaking to our sports reporter, james burridge. je m appelle noam mouelle, etje prepare la boat race avec cambridge. it s quite something, i would say, it s very challenging. there is a lot of pressure, obviously. i ve never been that stressed, stressed out about rowing in my entire life. noam mouelle s mum wanted him to do an outdoor sport. little did she know how far that sport would take him from the suburbs of paris to the wild and lonely great ouse, for one of rowing s biggest endeavours, the boat race. when you tell people in france, so people ....
this is bbc news, the headlines. a tornado has killed at least 23 people in the us state of mississippi. trees and power lines have been torn down and tens of thousands of power outages have been reported by residents. tensions continue in france with demonstrators clashing with police in st solene, in the west of the country, during a protest against plans for a new water reservoir. the unrest follows weeks of protests over president macron s pension reforms. vladimir putin says russia has struck a deal with neighbouring belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory. putin told state television that belarusian president, alexander lukashenko, has long been raising the issue with him. a massive asteroid is expected to pass between the earth and the moon this evening. experts say it will pass by safely and can be seen through binoculars and telescopes. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for witness history: women led movements. hello and welcome t ....
hello, welcome to the programme. it is nato s expansion eastwards that has infuriated vladimir putin. the kremlin is deeply suspicious of europe s intentions, they don t like western liberal philosophy, and in spite of all evidence to the contrary, they firmly believe it is the united states that is to blame for the situation in ukraine. that paranoia underpins their wharped justification for this war and the more widely held belief in russia that the principal danger to the state is external and ideological, rather than internal and structural. and if you doubt that, then take a listen to sergei lavrov, the foreign minister, describing today the threat in the most extraordinary terms. what is going on in ukraine now is a result of many years of preparation by the united states and their satellite states for the beginning of the global hybrid war against the russian federation. nobody tries to conceal it. they are waging a war against our country with the same task th ....
i m at the home and studio of one of sri lanka s most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. i m happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far you ve been influenced as both an artist and an archaeologist by sri lanka s past? i m totally influenced by that. i m totally, yes. everything i do has something to do with the past of sri lanka and the idea of the past, that we keep performing in the present. yeah. but it s notjust sri lanka s past, it s a particularly bloody past that you choose to focus on. why? that is what i call the history of the present. you know, we have a long history coming from, like, fifth century bc, and, you know, there s this great history of sri lanka or south asia. but the 20th century history is i call the history of the present, which is.defines myself and my a ....
have been killed. a metre of fresh snow has fallen, and many areas remain under threat of flooding. president biden has declared a state of emergency, freeing federal aid for the state. those are our top story this hour. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zainab badawi. i m just outside colombo, the capital of sri lanka. this beautiful island nation has been plunged into its worst economic crisis for more than 70 years. it led to widespread protests and forced the resignation of the president last year. and all this after a long running civil war in which around 100,000 died. i m at the home and studio of one of sri lanka s most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. i m happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far you ve been influenced as both an art ....