michel roux, welcome to hardtalk. it is a great pleasure to be sitting in this restaurant, one of the most famous in london, been in your family for the best part of six decades. the countdown to closure has begun. how do you feel about that? incredibly mixed emotions. it s. it s obviously happiness because there s light at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful an
again taking hold from the west and a warm front will give us some rain to the north and west. further south and east, largely dry, a lot of cloud and some hill fog. more of a westerly wind but temperatures back up westerly wind but temperatures back up into double figures. it is not set to last again because another cold front brings a brisk north westerly wind through thursday, very strong winds, gales in the north of scotland, 70 80 mph and went on i was seacoast and possibly a coastal search on north east facing coso look at the forecast, may be blizzard like conditions with wintry showers across scotland. and that s bbc news at ten. on bbc one, it s time tojoin our colleagues for the news where you are. goodnight. this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines at the top of the hour, as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. 50 years ago, london had a terrible reputation forfood. generally, it was bland, stodgy and overcooked. b
congressional correspondent aishah hasnie tells us what some lawmakers want to do about that now. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. in a very rare public appearance. the chiefs of the fbi, the cia. nsa and odni and d.e.a. all came together on capitol hill to hand over their annual threat assessment to lawmakers. and it covered a wide variety of topics from the russia war on ukraine to iran s nuclear program, but china, they say, is the most consequential threat to america s national security right now. and lawmakers grilled them on this app. tiktok which even intel officials admit screams national security concerns. it may be the beginning of the end for tiktok as the nation s top intelligence officials testified on capitol hill about the dangers of the chinese-owned app. at a hearing on threats around the world. could they use tiktok to control data on millions of users? yes. could they use it to control the software on millions of devices given the
the high light, how is this structural law helping to build back. we go to philadelphia for a closed door fund-raiser with the democratic senator nominee john fetterman. another trip to pennsylvania is a reminder the president is simply not welcome by many across the country, and the president is skipping traditional campaign rallies, choosing instead to mostly hold low key events on administrative policy wins. when asked why he s not out on the campaign trail, he insists he is. there hasn t been that many candidates campaigning with you. that s not true. there ve been 15. count. let s get straight to mj lee. she s live from pittsburgh. what are we hearing from the president? reporter: well, john, you will recall it was back in january the president was supposed to visit pittsburgh, an literally hours before that it was behind me where he was standing but fortunately nobody was killed at the time, but the timing of it is really incredibly coincidental because the occ
russia has made a rare acknowledgement that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year s eve attack by ukrainian forces. the strikes were carried out with himars rockets supplied by the us and destroyed a former school in the donetsk region, where the soldiers are said to have been temporarily deployed. several russian politicians have said commanders must be held to account for allowing such a large number of troops to be concentrated in an unprotected area. in ukraine, the country s armed forces say the strike killed hundreds of russian soldiers, as our correspondent in kyiv, hugo bachega reports. in a town in eastern ukraine, rubble and many questions. this used to be a school, apparently turned into a base for russian soldiers. at around midnight on new year s eve, ukraine struck. how many were killed remains unclear. in moscow, the army claimed the attack was carried out was also a rare admission of casualties. translation: as a result | of the strike by four rockets