in flash flooding last month. we need to get back to better to where we were and the legislation has been bipartisan leap past and it is a way to do it. a covid outbreak leaves more than 80,000 tourists stranded in the popular chinese resort city of sanya. and in birmingham, eleven days of competition have come to an end, at the closing ceremony of the commonwealth games. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. let s start with some breaking news. in the past hour, former us president donald trump has issued a statement saying that the fbi has carried out a raid on his florida home at mar a lago. he was not in florida at the time. mr trump said that a large number of agents arrived at the compound with a search warrant. he said while there, they accessed his safe. let s speak to our north america correspondent peter bowes. i know that you are still making sense of the scene but can you tell us exactly what we know about the initial reaction from th
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. there are some human experiences which most of us find very hard to get our heads around. my guest today experienced the unimaginable torment of more than four decades in solitary confinement in a tiny cell in one of america s most notorious prisons. albert woodfox was the victim of ingrained racism and brutality inside america s system of criminaljustice. he is now a free man. but what does freedom really mean after everything he has been through? albert woodfox, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. here you are, in london as a free man. but given everything you have been through, is it possible for you to ever feel truly free? well, yeah, i mean, philosophically, mentally and emotionally, i was free long before my actual physical freedom. and so, that was a part of my survival technique. my survival one of my many survival techniques. it allowed me to survive being in solitary confinem
days of competition. a very warm welcome to the programme. the former us president donald trump has issued a statement saying that the fbi has carried out a raid on his florida home at mar a lago. he was not in the state at the time. mr trump said that a large group of agents arrived at the compound with a search warrant. they even broke into my safe! he said. a spectacular fbi search on former president donald trump s florida home to reportedly seize official papers he has handled. 50 seize official papers he has handled. . seize official papers he has handled- seize official papers he has handled. ., ., , seize official papers he has handled. . ., , handled. so that means the most famous conservative handled. so that means the most famous conservative politician . famous conservative politician in the united states, the former president, likely to be now a candidate for president, is being investigated seriously for a crime. that is unprecedented.- for a crime. that is
just about everything nowadays has silicon chips in it, from phones and computers to kitchen appliances and cars. but the world has been facing a chip shortage, which has exposed just how dependent we all are on semiconductor manufacturers in asia, with the vast majority of chips produced by the taiwanese company tsmc. among those who want to wrestle back some of that market share is the us. today, president biden will sign into law a bipartisan bill to boost microchip manufacturing in the us. the $280 billion package is aimed at addressing supply chain problems exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. supporters call it a win for the nation s economy and security. here s our north america correspondent michelle fleury in new york. microchips, the digital brains of every piece of technology around us. but a global shortage has disrupted everything from the production of cars to household appliances.- of cars to household appliances. of cars to household a- liances. ., appli