being sampled in the beyonce song flawless but her books have been translated in over 30 languages. her newest essay deals with a very personal grief of losing her father. her mother also unexpectedly died in the past year. she tells us why she has chosen to be so open about this time in her life. i also ask her about the controversial comments she has made about trans women in the past and we discuss how she copes with the very public consequences of being one of nigeria s most famous voices. chimamanda ngozi adichie, thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us here on the bbc s 100 women season. thank you. we are just going to start off talking about how a lot of our audience might have come across you and especially with the we should all be feminist ted talk from ten years ago, almost. how do you reflect on those days now and how would you say your thoughts have perhaps changed since 2012? it is interesting. i have not realised it has been that long. my view of f
we look at the life and the work of the trailblazer virgil abloh. hello, thank you very much for joining us. several more countries around the world have detected cases of the new coronavirus variant known as omicron. it s the most heavily mutated version of the virus discovered so far and early evidence suggests that it has a higher risk of re infection. canada and france have become the latest countries to report infections and a third case has been detected in the uk. at least 13 cases have been confirmed in the netherlands. they were all on flights coming from south africa where scientists first identified the variant. omicron is responsible for most of the infections found in gauteng province in south africa, and has been found in all provinces there. britain, as the current chair of the g7 group of leading economies, is to convene an urgent meeting of health ministers to discuss how best to respond. all this as a number of countries have moved to restrict or ban incomin
now on bbc news, it s the media show with ros atkins. hello and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. and this time around, we are going to try and understand why some political stories have long lasting impact, and others, even those which feel hugely important at the time, do not. to help us look at this, we are going to speak to the bbc s steve rosenberg. he is our moscow correspondent and he s just recorded a remarkable interview with the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko. we re also going to consider the new editor of the daily mail. i wonder how itv covered that story. we certainly did cover peppa pig, and i can imagine that my itv colleague in northumberland, who was there, was watching, as we all were, slightly through his hands at that speech, not on just peppa pig, but at a few things, and of course, he had the opportunity straight after that interview to ask the prime minister some questions, so all broadcasters but it was his turn to ask the q
hello, thank you forjoining us. several more countries around the world have detected cases of the new coronavirus variant known as omicron. it s the most heavily mutated version of the virus discovered so far and early evidence suggests that it has a higher risk of re infection. canada has confirmed two infections and france has also reported a number of suspected cases. a third case has been detected in the uk. at least 13 cases have been confirmed in the netherlands. they were all on flights coming from south africa where scientists first identified the variant. omicron is responsible for most of the infections found in gauteng province in south africa, and has been found in all provinces there. britain, as the current chair of the g7 group of leading economies, is to convene an urgent meeting of health ministers to discuss how best to respond. it comes as a number of countries have moved to restrict or ban incoming flights from southern africa, as caroline davies reports.
with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, the 27 people smuggled across europe to their deaths in the channel. the brakes are off for germany s traffic light coalition. and the peppa pig guide to being prime minister. our dateline panel this week the portuguese academic and journalist eunice goes. we re hoping to bejoined soon by thomas kielinger, veteran uk watcher and royal biographer. and in the studio with me, the bbc news presenter and foreign correspondent clive myrie. good to see you, clive. first, covid a new variant identified in south africa is causing concern and disrupting international travel as a result and clive, it s been called omicron tonight. it s always a bad sign when they give it a greek name, isn t it? yeah, it is. it s an attempt not to stigmatise its place, seeming place of origin