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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 ....
case. people who had their campaigns funded by david macintosh and club for growth are not listening to him. they re not listening to former president trump so do they really have the influence that they think they have? yeah, chaos feeds on chaos, happy birthday, congressman. we ll go up to the capitol to manu raju and, manu, tell us about the key meeting of these rebels, of these conservative holeouts happening right now. tell us more. reporter: this can be a pivotal meeting. several members we are looking closely to see how they will vote are holed up in emmer s office, a member of the republican leadership. it includes chip roy, scott perry, byron donalds, dan bishop, all people who have not three of the four haven t indicated how they may vote on this particular round. i asked byron donalds himself who first had been nominated here in this ballot whether he will vote for himself. he refused to say. he would not say whether he would vote for himself. you guys ....
captions by vitac www.vitac.com looking right now at buckingham palace. people, though fewer in number, are still showing up at this hour. the embodiment, as cnn s max foster put it earlier in the program, of a nation slightly loss after the passing of queen elizabeth ii earlier today in scotland. she was, as many have said, the only monarch most britons have known. and she may have been the first british monarch most britons have known in a familiar, more regal sense, the first to usher in the modern united kingdom. christian am pour said tonight from the grand britain of her early childhood to the great britain of today. it read, the queen died peacefully at balmoral this afternoon. the king and the queen consort will remain at balmoral this evening and will return tomorrow. we saw a demonstration of remarkable continuity of secession, people outside the palace singing the national anthem with god save the queen replaced from here to the end of charles iii s ....
moment? reporter: they described it as concerned. doctors concerned about the queen s health. they very rarely put any statements out about her health and they never speak in such stark language. so that is very concerning. we also know that the queen is at the castle, she is overseeing by medical attention. she is not being taken to the hospital. read into that as bull. the biggest concern is that all the family have dropped everything that they were doing and they headed immediately to balmoral. prince charles is already there as is princess ann. i understand other members of the royal family landed at the airport about an hour away. i don t expect to get any more update until the whole family are within the castle and they have been informed personally about what is a big family moment. we can also read into the fact that prince harry and meghan have also dropped everything, also heading to scotland. and putting all their personal differences with the rest of the f ....